General philosophy

General philosophy

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Political absolutism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A political theory that argues that one person should hold all power.

Eudaimonism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A system of ethics that evaluates actions in terms of their capacity to produce happiness.

Christian existentialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical movement shares similar views to existentialism with the added idea that the Judeo-Christian God plays an important part in coping with the underlying themes of human existence.

Expressivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A theory about the meaning of moral language. According to expressivism, sentences that employ moral terms–for example, "It is wrong to torture an innocent human being"–are not descriptive or ...

Ethnocentrism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. It is defined as the viewpoint that "one's own group is the centre of everything (better than all other ...

An aesthetic and artistic movement that distorted reality for enhanced or overexaggerated emotional effect. It can also apply to some literature; the works of Franz Kafka and Georg Kaiser are often ...