- Overview
- Branches of Philosophy
- African philosophy
- Eastern philosophy
- Indigenous American philosophy
- Middle Eastern philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Glossary
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental questions about:
- Cosmology: the study of the origin and evolution of the universe
- Metaphilosophy: the philosophy of philosophy
- Practical philosophy
- Aesthetics: the study of beauty and taste
- Axiology: the study of value
- Decision theory: the study of choice
- Economic development: the process of improving quality of life
- Ethics: the study of right and wrong
- Theoretical philosophy
- Epistomology: the theory of knowledge
- Logic: the study of arguments
- Metaphysics: the study of reality
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of science
- Hundred schools of thought
- Agriculturalism
- Confucianism (i.e. Ruism)
- Legalism
- Mohism
- Neoconfucianism
- School of Diplomacy
- School of Names
- School of Naturalists
- Syncretism
- Taoism
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Pre-Socratic philosophy
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Roman philosophy
- Scholasticism
- Medieval philosophy
- Renaissance philosophy
- Action: that which is done by an agent
- Agency (philosophy): the capacity to act in a given environment
- Agency (sociology): the capacity to act independently and make free choices
- Assertion: a statement or enunciation in the metalanguage
- Association: a mental connection between concepts, events, or mental states that usually stems from specific experiences
- Authority: legitimate power a person or group has over another
- Awareness: the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events
- Choice: judging the merits of multiple options and selecting from them
- Communication: the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another
- Decision-making: the process of selecting a belief or course of action from several possibilities
- Environment: a system in which one exists and interacts
- Evidence: anything presented in support of an assertion
- Existence (i.e. being): the ability to interact with reality
- Experience: the first person effects or influence of an event, or subject gained through exposure to it
- Fact: something known to be consistent with reality, that can be proven true with evidence
- Free will: the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded
- Idea: mental representational images of some object, or abstract concepts
- Independence: a person or people who exercise self-governance
- Individual: that which exists as a distinct entity
- Information: the resolution of uncertainty
- Knowledge: a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something
- Metalanguage: a language used to describe another language
- Mind: the set of cognitive faculties including:
- Conciousness: sentience or awareness of internal or external existence
- Imagination: the ability to produce and simulate novel objects, people, and ideas in the mind without sensory input
- Judgement: the evaluation of evidence to make a decision
- Language: a structured system of communication
- Memory: the faculty by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed
- Perception: the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information to understand the environment
- Thought: an aim-oriented flow of ideas and associations that can lead to a reality-oriented conclusion
- Object: something understood in contrast to a subject
- Opinion: a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive
- People: a plurality of persons considered as a whole
- Person: a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and is part of society
- Power: the capacity to influence others' behavior
- Reality: the sum of all that is real, as opposed to imaginary
- Reason: the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting
- Sense: a physiological capacity of organisms to perceive
- Social interaction or relation: any relationship between two or more individuals
- Social structure: patterned social arrangements
- Society: a group of individuals who interact
- Subject: a being who has a unique consciousness or unique experience
- Value: the degree of importance of some thing or action
- Violence: using physical force to abuse, damage, destroy, or injure
- Uncertainty: having imperfect or unknown information