n
(‘the Abderite’) Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Acmeist [Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.]
n
Ellipsis of Thomas Aquinas; an Italian philosopher, theologian and jurist during the 13th century.
n
The philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas.
n
A follower of Thomas Aquinas.
n
(historical) An esoteric ideological system pioneered by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, based around paganism and the Aryan race.
n
A disciple of Aristotle (for ancient Greek disciples, see peripatetic; for medieval Christian ones, see scholastic)
n
Synonym of Aristotelianism
n
The philosophy and political ideology of Isaac Asimov.
n
Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.
n
The scientific methods of Francis Bacon.
adj
Relating to the theosophical ideas of the 17th-century German mystic Jakob Böhme.
n
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and social reformer.
n
A follower of Bergsonian philosophy; an adherent of Bergsonism.
n
A follower of Bergsonian philosophy.
adj
Relating to Bordigism.
n
The philosophical doctrines of René Descartes.
n
A follower of Noam Chomsky.
n
A Ciceronian phrase or expression.
adj
Relating to cindynics.
n
One who follows the ideology of Frederic Clements.
n
A follower of the teachings of Confucius; a Confucian.
n
A supporter of the theories of Copernicus.
n
(rare) Synonym of Copernican
n
(dated) An adherent of the corpuscular theory of chemistry.
n
the philosophy of the Greek Cynics
adj
Alternative form of Descartian [Synonym of Cartesian]
n
A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650.
adj
Alternative form of Descartesian [Synonym of Cartesian]
n
A follower of the philosophy or lifestyle of Dudeism.
n
Synonym of Einsteinianism
n
A philosopher of the Eleatic school.
n
Synonym of Emersonianism
n
A Greek Stoic philosopher.
n
A proponent of the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
n
A follower of Freud or his methods.
n
One who favours Fröbel's system of education.
n
Support for the Froebelian system of education.
adj
Characteristic of the works of Kurt Gödel.
adj
(derogatory, informal) Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
n
(philosophy) The convoluted, obscure style of writing associated with the works of G.W.F. Hegel
adj
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
n
The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.
n
Alternative form of Hegelianism [The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.]
n
A supporter, student, or scholar of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
n
(rare) Someone who agrees with the philosophy and theories of Werner Heisenberg.
n
Synonym of Heracliteanism
n
A supporter of Herbart's ideas about education.
n
The Herbartian system of education.
n
Synonym of Herbartianism
n
A follower of the theology of Georg Hermes.
adj
Relating to the views of Rudolf Hilferding; in particular pertaining to the theory that imperialism was primarily the product of finance.
n
The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
n
(philosophy) A follower of the theories of Thomas Hobbes.
n
The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes; support for this system.
n
Hobbesianism; the philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, support for this system
n
One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.
n
Someone who subscribes to this belief.
n
A person who substantially agrees with the political theories of Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
n
David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian.
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An adherent or advocate of Humean doctrines.
n
(philosophy) Humean philosophy
n
Synonym of Humean (“follower of Humean philosophy”)
n
(rare) The beliefs and attitudes of Samuel P. Huntington, especially concerning his idea of a clash of civilizations.
adj
Supporting indigenous people or beliefs.
n
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
n
Synonym of Ku Klux Klanism
n
A follower of Emil Kraepelin's approach.
n
An adherent to the ideas of Leopold Kronecker.
n
A supporter of Lacanianism.
n
A philosopher who supports the beliefs of John Locke.
n
Alternative letter-case form of Maecenatism [(uncommon) Patronage.]
n
The theological-philosophical system of the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), based on the doctrine that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.
n
Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed the view that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.
n
A supporter of the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
n
A proponent of Meiklejohnian absolutism.
n
Alternative form of monometallist [A supporter of monometallism.]
n
(politics) Clipping of neoconservative. [(US) A supporter of neoconservatism.]
adj
Of or pertaining to neo-Bolshevism.
adj
Of or relating to Neo-Catholicism.
n
A reinterpretation of Christianity.
n
An adherent of Neo-Confucianism.
adj
Of or concerning the movement of neo-creationism.
n
A minor art movement with similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada art.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to various additions and modifications to Paul Grice's pragmatics by other linguists.
adj
Relating to the philosophy of neo-Hegelianism.
n
The philosophy of a school of British and American idealists who followed Hegel in dialectical or logical method and in the general outcome of their doctrine.
adj
Relating to Neo-Hellenism
n
(philosophy, art, architecture) A movement that draws inspiration from classical historicism
n
A follower of Neo-Kantianism
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Alternative form of Neo-Kantianism [(philosophy) A revived philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work The World as Will and Representation (1818), as well as by other post-Kantian philosophers. It has some more specific reference in later German philosophy.]
adj
Relating to Neo-Lamarckism
n
The beliefs and attitudes of neo-Luddites.
adj
Relating to Neo-Malthusianism.
adj
Of or pertaining to neo-Marxism.
n
Someone who subscribes to certain beliefs which notably differ from but do not oppose in basic principle those of the Objectivist movement.
n
(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.
n
Alternative spelling of neo-pantheism [Any revived or reconceived variation of pantheism, the belief that the Universe is sacred and should be revered; any of a number of modern form of present day renditions of pantheism, as distinguished from earlier perspectives.]
n
A person who believes in neo-pantheism
adj
Of or relating to various theories that build upon and criticize those of Jean Piaget.
adj
Alternative spelling of neopositivist [Of or relating to neopositivism.]
n
(linguistics) A modern linguistic movement, based on purism, that accepts neologisms if they conform to established patterns
n
Alternative form of Neopythagorean [An adherent of Neopythagoreanism.]
adj
Relating to neo-romanticism
n
An extension of Romanticism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
adj
Relating to neo-scholasticism
n
A revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Roman Catholic theology and philosophy which began in the second half of the 19th century.
adj
Pertaining to reinterpreted forms of Sunnism
adj
(communism) Of or pertaining to neo-Trotskyism.
n
Someone with neo-Victorian characteristics; a conservative.
adj
Relating to a newly-formed association
n
(rare, creationism) A group of the currently alive members of a baramin.
adj
Relating to neobehaviorism.
n
Alternative form of neobehaviorist [An advocate of neobehaviorism.]
adj
(linguistics) Being a recent construction based on older, classical elements.
n
a follower of neoclassicism
adj
Pertaining to neoconceptualism.
adj
Of or relating to a Brazilian art movement of 1959–61 which rejected the pure rationalist approach of concretism and embraced a more phenomenological and less scientific art.
adj
(US) Of or relating to neoconservatism.
n
Alternative form of neo-creationist [A proponent of neo-creationism.]
n
(sociology, anthropology) A proponent of neoevolutionism.
adj
Of or relating to neofeudalism.
n
One involved in the neoformalism movement.
adj
Of or pertaining to neofuturism.
adj
Of or pertaining to neognosticism.
n
Any relatively modern Gnostic movement.
n
Alternative form of Neogrammarian [(linguistics) A member of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change; or a follower of that school.]
n
A holistic philosophical theory given by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar that redefines humanity and humanism, and in which universalism plays a central role.
n
A follower of neohumanism.
adj
Resembling or relating to neohumanism.
n
(philosophy) A proponent of neoidealism
adj
Of or relating to neoimpressionism.
n
A subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists, using pseudonyms, pranks, paradoxes, plagiarism, and fakes so as to attempt to defy categorization.
n
A participant in the Neoism movement.
n
One who holds neomodern attitudes or takes a neomodern approach.
adj
Relating to Neonomianism.
n
Alternative form of Neo-orthodoxy
n
Alternative spelling of neo-pantheism [Any revived or reconceived variation of pantheism, the belief that the Universe is sacred and should be revered; any of a number of modern form of present day renditions of pantheism, as distinguished from earlier perspectives.]
adj
Being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.
n
A neopastoral style or approach.
adj
Of or relating to neopatrimonialism.
adj
Of or pertaining to Neoplatonism.
n
A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.
n
(philosophy) A member of the philosophical school of Neoplatonism.
n
A resurgent positivism, or an updated version of it.
adj
Of or relating to neopositivism.
adj
Related to the neoprimitivism movement.
n
A modern proponent of puritanical doctrines.
adj
Relating to or exhibiting neopuritan attitudes.
n
The beliefs and policies of neopuritans.
n
A Graeco-Alexandrian school of philosophy, reviving Pythagorean doctrines, which became prominent in the first and second centuries CE.
n
Any of various styles and schools of thought that incorporate elements of romanticism
adj
Relating to neoshamanism.
adj
Of or relating to neoshamanism.
adj
Of or pertaining to neosocialism.
n
(historical) A Lipsian philosophical movement, originating in the late 16th century, that sought to combine the beliefs of stoicism and Christianity.
adj
Relating to neostructuralism.
n
(historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
adj
Being or relating to a neoterism.
adj
Of or pertaining to neotraditionalism.
n
Any revival of vitalism, but especially that of Johannes Reinke (1849–1931).
n
A proponent of neovitalism.
adj
Of or relating to neovitalism.
n
(geology, historical) A proponent of Neptunism.
n
A proponent of Neptunism.
adj
(sometimes derogatory) Relating to teachings or to the followers of Nestorius.
adj
(often capitalized) Of or relating to the New Age movement.
n
New Age beliefs and practices generally.
n
Alternative form of New Ager [One who espouses New Age beliefs.]
adj
(informal) Pertaining to, or suggesting, New Age beliefs.
adj
Related to new atheism.
n
A person with New Thought beliefs.
adj
Alternative form of New Agey [(informal) Pertaining to, or suggesting, New Age beliefs.]
n
(historical) A member of the Oxford movement.
n
Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher.
adj
(physics) Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
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A proponent of Newtonianism.
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A supporter of the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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A follower of Ockhamism.
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The Onsagerian theories of thermodynamics.
n
The standard collection of the works of Aristotelian logic.
n
A medical movement of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus.
n
(obsolete) A peripatetic; one who accepts the views of Aristotle.
n
Obsolete spelling of Peripatetic [(historical) A disciple of Aristotle.]
n
An advocate or follower of Pestalozzi's system.
adj
Of or relating to Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher, known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics.
n
A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
n
The beliefs of the Plotinists.
adj
Of or relating to the philosophy of philosopher Karl R. Popper.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of prenewtonian [Before the work of Isaac Newton.]
n
(historical) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
n
(philosophy) A follower of the theories of Samuel von Pufendorf.
adj
Characteristic of the Greek philosopher Pyrrho
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A follower of Pythagoras; someone who believes in or advocates Pythagoreanism.
n
The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.
adj
(psychoanalysis) Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods.
adj
Of or relating to Richard McKay Rorty (1931–2007), American philosopher who rejected representationalism in favour of his own neopragmatism.
adj
(philosophy) Rousseauian.
n
Belief in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophies.
n
A Classical Greek philosopher.
n
A disciple or follower of Socrates.
n
A follower of Rudolf Steiner or his beliefs.
n
A follower of this philosophy.
n
A follower of supralapsarianism.
n
The Reformed school of theology developed by Nathaniel William Taylor.
n
(very rare) The philosophy of Thales of Miletus.
n
A follower or advocate of Thomism.
adj
Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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The principles of the Tractarians.
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A follower of Utraquism, a moderate Hussite.
n
(philosophy) The theories or practice of Voltaire.
n
Synonym of Wagnerism (“the ideals of Richard Wagner”)
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The philosophical and artistic ideals put forward by the composer and theatre director Richard Wagner.
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An adherent of Wagner's musical methods.
n
A follower of Weismannism.
n
A proponent of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy.
n
Alternative form of holist [A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.]
n
Wittgensteinian philosophy
n
The philosophy of Zeno of Citium; stoicism.
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