General philosophy

General philosophy

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perfectionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that the persistence of will should be used in obtaining the optimal quality of spiritual, mental, physical, and material being.

School of thought that consists of three main principles: 1) only people are real (in the ontological sense), 2) only people have value, and 3) only people have free will. Personalism flourished in ...

perspectivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Philosophical view developed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that all perception and ideation takes place from a particular perspective in terms of inner drives as elucidated by the ...

pessimism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A belief that the experienced world is the worst possible. It describes a general belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it ...

phenomenal conservatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that it is reasonable to assume that things are as they appear, unless there are positive grounds for doubting this.

phenomenalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. ...

philosophy

Philosophy; General philosophy

Broad field of inquiry concerning knowledge; in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spans the nature of the universe and ...