General philosophy

General philosophy

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Gnosticism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups and, sometimes, by ...

Hedonism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The ethical view that pleasure is the greatest good, and that pleasure should be the standard in deciding which course of action to pursue. It is usually associated with a more physical, egoistic, or ...

Freudianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The beliefs and practise of psychoanalysis as devised by Sigmund Freud; particularly, the mechanism of psychological repression; the situation of sexual desire as central to the development of the ...

Formulism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Meaning adherence to or reliance on formulas, is also a school of philosophy that states that good, evil and choosing the correct actions can all be determined from a simple formula.

Particularism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In the study of knowledge, particularism refers to the approach where one asks the question "What do we know?" before asking "How do we know?" The term appears in Roderick Chisholm's "The Problem of ...

Panpsychism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Either the view that all parts of matter involve mind, or the more holistic view that the whole universe is an organism that possesses a mind. It is thus a stronger and more ambitious view than ...

Panendeism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Is deism combined with the belief that the universe is part of God, but not all of God. Some panendeists have established numerous additional beliefs, and use more specialised terminology to describe ...