CC Skills Philosophy

The study of reality, being, in general and fundamental contexts. Philosophy, the ultimate of big-thinking, is essentially the grandfather of most other science, which evolved from the general to the very specific as metrics evolved.

In modern terms, and contemporary campaigns, it's often an adjunct skill to another field, whether that's politics, ethics (as an adjunct to a law or an internal affairs department), cosmology (and what existed before the Big Bang), the nature of medicine (and the role and ethics of double-blind studies in clinical trials), and so on.

Skill rating levels and task translations:

 * Skill 10: The recognition of two or three significant philosophers, the naming of an applicable contemporary tradition, and some general knowledge of how a particular issue may have been approached during a particular period. Somebody was awake in 101 and 201.
 * Skill 20: The recognition of a few key (possibly favorite) philosophers in each branch and the ability to make a cogent defense on either side of any given argument.
 * Skill 30: A professional philosopher, often hired as consultant to a corporate board of directors or as an adjunct skill as a Doctor of SomethingElseEntirely.
 * Skill 50: Tenured professor, recognized in academic journals. Occasionally rises to give opinions on pop culture or politics guaranteed to combust some portion of the political spectrum.

Sub-skill branches and subjects
For this simulation, we recognize five branches and four subject-focused categories into which a character may specialize their sub-skills.
 * Aesthetics: The psychology, universality, and subjective nature of beauty.
 * Epistemology: the nature of knowledge.
 * Ethics: defines the balances of right conduct.
 * Logic: concerns the laws of valid reasoning.
 * Metaphysics: the nature and significance of the universe.
 * Legal philosophy: questions of jurisprudence that venture into the politically unpalatable subjects of the validity of law and the relationship between law and morality.
 * Political philosophy: asking inconvenient questions on the nature and definitions of liberty, justice, property, rights (who should have them) and enforcement.
 * Social philosophy: Essentially social science where ethics rather empiricism becomes the criteria.
 * Theology: At its crux, the crossroads of metaphysics and epistemology, this evolves into the study of religious ideologies, comparative religion and philosophic study of higher intelligence in our universe.