noun. The study of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning.

noun. A system of thought based on or involving such study.

noun. The study of the theoretical underpinnings of a particular field or discipline.

noun. An underlying theory or set of ideas relating to a particular field of activity or to life as a whole.

noun. The body of highest truth; the organized sum of science; the science of which all others are branches; the science of the most fundamental matters. ; ;

noun. A special branch of knowledge of high speculative interest

noun. Any such science, as alchemy (in Chaucer).

noun. Theology: this nse of the word was common in the middle ages

noun. Psychology and ethics; moral philosophy.

noun. Physics; natural philosophy.

noun. The fundamental part of any science; propædeutic considerations upon which a special science is founded; general principles connected with a science, but not forming part of it; a theory connected with any branch of human activity: as, the philosophy of. science; the philosophy of history; the philosophy of government.

noun. A doctrine which aims to be philosophy in any of the above senses.

noun. A calm temper which is unruffled by small annoyances; a stoical impassiveness under adversity

noun. See the adjectives.

noun. The philosophy of Hegel. Also called objective philosophy.

noun. Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

noun. A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.

noun. Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism.

noun. Reasoning; argumentation.

noun. The course of sciences read in the schools.

noun. A treatise on philosophy.

noun. that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy.

noun. that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens.

noun. that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens.

noun. that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.

noun. The love of wisdom.

noun. An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.

noun. A comprehensive system of belief.

noun. A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.

noun. A general principle (usually moral).

noun. A broader branch of (non-applied) science.

verb. To philosophize.

noun. a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

noun. the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

noun. any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation

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