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A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
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The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
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Knowing everything; omniscient.
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A person of ascetic principles.
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Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
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(religion, philosophy) The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.
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(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
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A good or benevolent spirit.
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Alternative spelling of eudemonia [Happiness, well-being.]
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That part of ethics that deals with happiness; the science of happiness, contrasted with aretaics.
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A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality.
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Alternative spelling of eudemonia [Happiness, well-being.]
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Alternative spelling of eudaemonism [A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality.]
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Alternative form of eudaemonics [That part of ethics that deals with happiness; the science of happiness, contrasted with aretaics.]
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Alternative form of eudaemonism [A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality.]
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Obsolete spelling of eudemonia [Happiness, well-being.]
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A field of psychology taking a subject-based, inductive approach to aesthetics.
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(Gnosticism) an immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics
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Someone who gnosticizes.
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Obsolete form of gnostic. [(archaic, slang) knowing; wise; shrewd]
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Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism
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(ethics, uncountable) The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.
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But the Reasons that induce them to embrace it, and ſo ſtifsly to maintain it, are theſe two onely, or at leaſt chiefly, as much as reſpects the Holenmeriſm of Spirits. The firſt is, That whereas they grant that the whole Soul does pervade and poſſeſs the whole Body, they thought it would thence follow that the Soul would be diviſible, unleſs they should correct again this Aſſertion of theirs, by ſaying, that it was yet ſo in the whole Body, that it was totally in the mean time in every part thereof.
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(philosophy, metaphysics, theology) The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. Contrast transcendence.
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The doctrine that the soul exists before the body and is infused into it at conception or birth.
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Of or relating to intellectualism.
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Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
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The doctrine that there is only one immortal soul or intellect with which all human beings are endowed.
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A diffuse notion of theism and morality, which need not be tied to any particular religious creed, found to be common among early 21st-century US American teenagers.
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Having total knowledge.
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(religion, philosophy) The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
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the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
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The theory that all matter is conscious.
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naive or unreasonable optimism
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The capacity to know everything; omniscience.
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The concept of all things having sentience.
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Obsolete form of philosophical. [Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.]
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Alternative form of philosophistic [Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.]
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A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
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(informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
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(philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.
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Obsolete form of Platonic. [Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.]
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(theology) The belief that the natural world is a reflection or imitation of a perfect supernatural one.
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(obsolete) Teaching wisdom.
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(philosophy) An axiology or ethical theory in which value is determined by the well-being (e.g., happiness) of people or other sentient beings.
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