philosophical movement
appearance or increased popularity of a specific school of philosophy
Post-structuralism
heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists
Cartesianism
philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes
historicism
philosophy
German idealism
predominant philosophical movement in Germany around 1800
German Historical School
philosophical movement
Neo-Kantianism
revival of Immanuel Kant's philosophy
Russian cosmism
philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
contextualism
collection of views in philosophy which argue that actions or expressions can only be understood in context
Americanism
preference among New World Catholics for more liberal theology (Religious particularism)
Modern Greek Enlightenment
18th-century national revival and educational movement in Greece
Death-positive movement
social and philosophical movement that encourages people to speak openly about death, dying, and corpses
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
scientism
belief that science is the best or only means to truth
postmodern philosophy
philosophical movement
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
Muscular Christianity
Religious and social movement
religious feminism
feminism inspired by religion
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
hermeticism
tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
deism
belief in God without revelation
Hundred Schools of Thought
philosophies and schools that flourished from the 6th century to 221 BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period of ancient China
Hegelianism
philosophy based on the work of G. W. F. Hegel
existential philosophy
philosophical movement
critical realism
theory that some of our sense-data (for example, those of primary qualities) can and do accurately represent external objects, properties, and events
identity philosophy
Hegel's notion for Schelling's formulation of the mind-body problem
Buddhism
Indian religion
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
nonviolence
principle or practice of not causing harm to others
nonviolence
principle or practice of not causing harm to others
logical positivism
assertion that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful
secularism
position that religion should not influence civic and state affairs
sensationism
view in epistemology and cognitive psychology that perceptions underlie all cognition; thinking is recollection, modification, association,and comparison of perceptions
perennial philosophy
15th-century philosophical idea that views all religious traditions as sharing a single truth or origin
voluntarism
school of thought in metaphysics, psychology, sociology, and theology
unilineal evolution
obsolete anthropological theory that Western European-American culture is the pinnacle of social evolution in a single line from the most primitive to most civilized
French philosophism
a school of philosophy in 18th-century France, founded on the presumption that scientific knowledge is the key to unlock the mystery and resolve the riddle of the universe
structural Marxism
Marxism philosophical movement associated with Althusser
illuminism
philosophical, spiritual and religious movement
dialectical naturalism
philosophical underpinnings of social ecology, exploring the interrelationship between social problems and their consequences on the ecological impact of human society
encyclopedism
philosophical and pedagogical movement in 18th-century France
scientific materialism
nineteenth-century German philosophical current
Moscow's methodological circle
group founded by Georgy Shchedrovitsky
theistic naturalism
worldview that rejects divine intervention while keeping theism
cosmism
various philosophical or cultural movements, based on the concept that man and mankind as elements are linked to the cosmos and developing together with it according to certain laws