PHILOSOPHY
Definition:
- [noun] a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
Synonyms: doctrine, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
- [noun] the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
- [noun] any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
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- nuclear deterrence
- Kabbalism, Cabalism
- abolitionism
- absolutism
- amoralism
- animalism
- animism
- antiestablishmentarianism, antiestablishmentism
- asceticism
- creationism
- creed, credo
- dogma
- dualism
- dynamism
- epicureanism
- establishmentarianism, establishmentism
- ethicism
- expansionism
- formalism
- functionalism
- gospel
- gymnosophy
- imitation
- individualism, laissez faire
- internationalism
- unilateralism
- irredentism, irridentism
- literalism
- majority rule, democracy
- monism
- multiculturalism
- nationalism
- nationalism
- nihilism
- pacifism, passivism
- pluralism
- populism
- presentism
- rationalism, freethinking
- reformism
- humanism, secular humanism
- humanitarianism, humanism
- egalitarianism, equalitarianism
- feminism
- reincarnationism
- secessionism
- secularism
- phenomenology
- philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
- states' rights
- teaching, precept, commandment
- theological doctrine, religious doctrine
- utilitarianism
- religious doctrine, church doctrine, gospel, creed
- millennium
- ethics, moral philosophy
- etiology, aetiology
- aesthetics, esthetics
- axiology
- jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy
- metaphysics
- dialectic
- logic
- epistemology
- transcendentalism, transcendental philosophy
