General philosophy

General philosophy

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Christianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Another name for Christianity, the monotheistic religion recognising Jesus Christ as its founder and central figure. With more than two billion adherents, or about one-third of the total world ...

Outside of South Asia, communalism describes a broad range of social movements and social theories in some way centred upon the community. Communalism can take the form of communal living or communal ...

Cognitivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In ethics, cognitivism is the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions, and hence are capable of being true or false. More generally, cognitivism with respect to any area of ...

Colbertism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A variation of mercantilism, which has applied in France between 1661 and 1683 by the superintendent of Finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

Intuitionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach to mathematics as the constructive mental activity of humans. That is, mathematics does ...

Irrationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that claims that science is inferior to intuition, with art and the conquest of the aesthetic being the ultimate transcendence of the humanity.

Islamism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, ...