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| 4744189526 | Epistemology | the study of knowledge | 0 | |
| 4744189772 | Empiricism | Knowledge comes from the senses, as we look, listen, smell, touch, and taste the various objects in our environment. | 1 | |
| 4744190392 | Rationalism | Constructing knowledge of the external world, the self, the soul, God, ethics, and science out of the simplest, indubitable ideas possessed innately by the mind. | 2 | |
| 4744191018 | Skepticism | We do not, or cannot, know anything, or at least that we do know as much as we think we do. | 3 | |
| 4744191020 | Metaphysics | The study of nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. | 4 | |
| 4744191598 | Aesthetics | Philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty. | 5 | |
| 4744191937 | Ethics | The study of philosophy of what is right or good. | 6 | |
| 4744192133 | A priori | A priori knowledge or justification does not depend on experience. | 7 | |
| 4744192693 | A posteriori | A posteriori knowledge or justification is dependent upon experience of empirical evidence. | 8 | |
| 4744193231 | Absurdism | Doctrine that we live in an irrational universe. | 9 | |
| 4744193708 | Agnosticism | Doctrine that we can know nothing beyond material phenomena. | 10 | |
| 4744194041 | Anarchism | Doctrine that all governments should be abolished. | 11 | |
| 4744194042 | Anthropomorphism | Attribution to all human qualities to nonhuman things. | 12 | |
| 4744194563 | Antinomainism | Doctrine of the rejection of moral laws. | 13 | |
| 4744194930 | Asceticism | Doctrine that self-denial of the body permits spiritual enlightenment. | 14 | |
| 4744195345 | Atheism | Belief that there is no God. | 15 | |
| 4744196841 | Atomism | Belief that the universe consists of small indivisible particles. | 16 | |
| 4744196842 | Bipartisanism | The state of being composed of members of two parties or of two parties cooperating, as in government. | 17 | |
| 4744197677 | Capitalism | Doctrine that private ownership and free markets should govern economies. | 18 | |
| 4744198412 | Centrism | Adherence to middle-of-the-road position, neither left nor right, as in politics. | 19 | |
| 4744198826 | Collectivism | Doctrine of communal control of means of production. | 20 | |
| 4744199241 | Communism | A theory or system in which all property is owned by all of the people equally, with its administration vested by them in the state or in the community. | 21 | |
| 4744199252 | Conservatism | Belief in maintaining political and social traditions. | 22 | |
| 4744199956 | Deism | Belief in God but rejection of religion. | 23 | |
| 4744200322 | Determinism | Doctrine that events are predetermined by preceding events or laws. | 24 | |
| 4744200734 | Dualism | Doctrine that the universe is ruled by one good and evil force. | 25 | |
| 4744201007 | Egalitarianism | Belief that humans ought to be equal in rights and privileges. | 26 | |
| 4744216517 | Existentialism | Doctrine of individual human responsibility in an unfathomable universe. | 27 | |
| 4744216843 | Fascism | A political philosophy that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. | 28 | |
| 4744216844 | Fatalism | Doctrine that events are fixed and humans are powerless. | 29 | |
| 4744217436 | Feminism | Belief that the liberation of women in society to a social stature equal to that of men. | 30 | |
| 4744218033 | Gnosticism | Belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge. | 31 | |
| 4744218034 | Hedonism | Belief that pleasure is the highest good. | 32 | |
| 4744218277 | Humanism | Belief that human interests and mind are paramount. | 33 | |
| 4744218828 | Imperialism | Policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations. | 34 | |
| 4744219182 | Individualism | Belief that individual interests and rights are paramount. | 35 | |
| 4744219461 | Libertarianism | Doctrine that personal liberty is the highest value. | 36 | |
| 4744219980 | Marxism | The economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels that hold the human actions and institutions are economically determined, and that class struggle is needed to create historical change, and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism. | 37 | |
| 4744219981 | Materialism | Belief that matter is the only extant substance. | 38 | |
| 4744220446 | Monotheism | Belief that there is only one God. | 39 | |
| 4744220772 | Nihilism | Denial of all reality; extreme skepticism. | 40 | |
| 4744222230 | Objectivism | A philosophical system founded by Ayn Rand, being one of several doctrines holding all reality is objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events. | 41 | |
| 4744222631 | Pantheism | Belief that the universe is God, that God is revealed in nature. | 42 | |
| 4744223199 | Polytheism | Belief in multiple deities. | 43 | |
| 4744223200 | Positivism | Doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable. | 44 | |
| 4744224071 | Pragmatism | Doctrine emphasizing practical value of philosophy. | 45 | |
| 4744224072 | Progressivism | The principles and practices of those advocating progress, change, or reform, especially in political matters. From Progressive Party, Progressive Movement. | 46 | |
| 4744224656 | Radicalism | The holding or following of principles advocating drastic political, economic, or social reforms. | 47 | |
| 4744225066 | Secularism | The concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs. | 48 | |
| 4744225630 | Self-Determinism | Doctrine that the actions of a self are determined by itself. | 49 | |
| 4744225631 | Socialism | Doctrine of centralized state control of wealth and property. | 50 | |
| 4744225947 | Solipsism | Theory that self-existence is the only certainty. | 51 | |
| 4744226897 | Stoicism | Belief in indifference to pleasure or pain. | 52 | |
| 4744227156 | Transcendentalism | Theory that emphasizes that which transcends perception. | 53 | |
| 4744227157 | Utilitarianism | Belief that utility of actions determines moral value and that the goal of human conduct is happiness. | 54 |
