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"The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came after his writings on physics. Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description so basic, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything must be like in order to be at all."

"Plato's ethics is inseparable from his epistemology. Epistemology is, broadly speaking, the study of what knowledge is and how one comes to have knowledge. Among the many topics included in epistemology are logic, belief, perception, language, science, and knowledge."
That's, in fact what's so special about them.
The search for knowledge and epistemology is a human ability that has been practiced maybe as far back as before the human species and continues till this day, not the ability of a few historical ego's. Giving too much credit to the famous people of tradition blocks you from a self-reliance that makes you say I'll think about it from scratch on my own and I'll believe someone else when I've come up with the same conclusion or it makes perfect sense to me through all self doubt. What's special here is what they did, what people have always done and can do now, not them.