General philosophy

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epicureanism

Philosophy; General philosophy

While often considered to be the philosophy of pleasure seeking, in fact refers to a middle-path philosophy defining happiness as success in avoiding pain, in the form of both mental worry and ...

epiphenomenalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view in philosophy of mind according to which physical events have mental effects, but mental events have no effects of any kind. In other words, the causal relations go only one way, from ...

essentialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The belief and practice centered on a philosophical claim that for any specific kind of entity it is at least theoretically possible to specify a finite list of characteristics, all of which any ...

A philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time. It builds on the standard method of modeling time as a dimension in physics, to give time a similar ontology to that of space. This would ...

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 center of everything (better than all other ...

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.