General philosophy

General philosophy

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moral absolutism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The belief in a single set of 'rights' and 'wrongs', with no variation. These are known by all people and to not respect them is a choice.

political absolutism

Philosophy; General philosophy

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

Philosophy stating that the efforts of man to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation to man). Absurdism is related to existentialism, ...

accidentalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Any system of thought that denies the causal nexus and maintains that events succeed one another haphazardly or by chance (not in the mathematical but in the popular sense). In metaphysics, ...

acosmism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In contrast to pantheism, denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, (the prefix "a-" in Greek meaning negation; like "un-" in English), and only the infinite Unmanifest ...

aestheticism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Another name for the Aesthetic movement, a loosely defined movement in art and literature in later 19th century Britain. Proponents of the movement held that art does not have any didactic purpose, ...

agnosticism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical view that the truth values of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities — are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, ...