List of philosophical concepts explained

See also: Glossary of philosophy.

A

• A priori and a posteriori
  • • Abductive reasoning Ability Absolute
• Absolute time and space
• Abstract and concrete
• Adiaphora
• Aesthetic emotions
• Aesthetic interpretation
  • Aesthetics Agathusia and aschimothusia
  • Agency Alief
• All men are created equal
  • Analogy Analytic–synthetic distinction
• Anthropic principle
• Antinomy
• Antinomian
• Apeiron
• Arborescent
  • Art Artha
• Atman
• Aufheben
• Autonomy
• Avant-garde
• Avatar
• Avadhuta
• Axiom

B

• Beauty
• Being
• Belief
• Binary opposition
  • Bioethics Biofact
  • Biopolitics Body without organs
  • Boltzmann brain Boredom
• Brahman
• Brahmanda
• Brain in a vat
• Brute fact

C

• Cambridge change
• Camp
• Cartesian other
• Cartesian Self
• Categorical imperative
• Categorization
• Category of being
• Causal adequacy principle
• Causality
• Chakra
• Charvaka
• Chaitanya
• Choice
• Civic virtue
• Class
• Class consciousness
• Class struggle
• Cogito ergo sum
• Cognitive bias
• Cognitive closure
• Commensurability
• Common good
• Common sense
• Composition of causes
• Compossibility
• Conatus
• Concept
• Condition of possibility
• Conjecture
• Conscience
• Consent
• Construct
  • Contingency Creativity
• Crazy wisdom
• Cultural hegemony
• Cultural sensibility
  • Culture Cuteness

D

• Daimonic
• Darshana
• Dasein
  • Deconstruction De dicto and de re
• Deductive reasoning
• Definition
  • Demarcation problem Descriptive knowledge
  • Desert Desiring-production
• Dharma
• Dhyana
  • Dialectic Diksha
• Disciplinary institution
• Discourse
• Disgust
• Distributive justice
• Distrust
• Documentality
• Dogma
  • Doxastic logic Duty

E

• Ecotechnics
• Ecstasy
• Efficient cause
• Elegance
• Embodied cognition
• Emergence
• Empirical method
• Empirical relationship
• Empirical research
• Entertainment
• Entity
• Epistemic injustice
• Epistemic justification
• Epistemic possibility
• Epistemic virtue
• Epoché
• Equal consideration of interests
• Eroticism
• Essence
• Eternity
• Ethics
• Ethics of care
• Eudaimonia
• Eupraxis
• Evil
  • Evil demon Existence
• Existential phenomenology
• Experience

F

• Fact
• Fairness
• False
  • Felicific calculus Fidelity
• Final anthropic principle
• Final cause
• Formal cause
• Formal theorem
  • Form of the Good Four causes
  • Freedom Free will
• Friendship
• Further facts

G

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
  • Gender Gettier problem
• Cooperative principle
  • God Good

H

• Haecceity
• Half-truth
• Happiness
  • Hard problem of consciousness Harmony
• Hate speech
• Here is a hand
• Heteronomy
• Human nature
• Human rights
• Hypothetical imperative

I

• Idea
• Ideal
• Ideal speech situation
• Identity
• Ideological repression
• Ideology
• Ignoramus et ignorabimus
• Ignorance
• I know that I know nothing
• Immanence
• Immanent critique
• Implicate and explicate order
• Inductive reasoning
• Infallibility
• Inference
• Infinity
• Information
• Injustice
• Innocence
• Instantiation principle
• Institutional cruelty
  • Instrumental and intrinsic value Intellectual responsibility
• Intention
• Integral philosophy
• Integral theory
• Integral yoga
• Interpellation
• Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
• Intuition
• Involution
  • • Irrationality Is–ought problem Ius indigenatus

J

• Judgement
• Jus sanguinis
• Jus soli
• Just war
• Justice

K

• Kathekon
• Kaula
• Kalachakra
• Kala
• Karma
• Karma yoga
• Kingdom of Ends
• KK thesis
• Knowledge
• Kundalini energy

L

• Laïcité
  • • Language Language game Last man
• Law
• Law of thought
• League of peace
• Logic
• Lie
• Life imitating art
• Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
• Logical consequence
• Logical constant
• Logical form
• Logical possibility
• Logical truth
• Logos
• Love
• Loyalty

M

• Magnificence
• Mansion of Many Apartments
• Mantra
• Marx's theory of alienation
• Marx's theory of human nature
• Master-slave dialectic
• Material cause
  • Mathematical object Matter
• Max Scheler's Concept of Ressentiment
• Maya
• Meaning
• Meaning of life
• Memory
• Mental representation
• Mental state
• Mercy
  • Metaphysics Mimesis
• Mind
• Mind–body problem
• Minority
• Modal logic
• Moksha
• Molyneux's Problem
  • Morality Moral responsibility
• Motion
• Mundane reason

N

• Name
• Nation
• Natural and legal rights
• Nature
• Necessary and sufficient condition
• Negative capability
• Nonmaleficence
• Norm of reciprocity
• Norm
• Normative science
  • Normativity Nothing
• Notion
• Noumenon

O

• Object
• Objectivity
  • Obligation Om
• Omphalos hypothesis
• Ontology

P

• Panopticon
• Paradox
• Passions
• Pattern
• Peace
• Percept
• Perception
• Peripatetic axiom
• Perpetual peace
  • Personal identity Personhood
  • Phenomenal conservatism Phenomenon
• Philosophical analysis
  • • Philosophical razor Philosophical zombie Philosophy of futility
• Physical body
• Physis
  • Pleasure Pneuma
  • Politics Political consciousness
  • Political freedom Polychotomous key
• Possible world
• Posthegemony
  • Power Prakriti
• Purusha
• Pratyabhijna
  • Praxis Presupposition
• Primum non nocere
• Principle
• Principle of double effect
  • Private language argument Problem of induction
  • Problem of mental causation Problem of other minds
• Prohairesis
  • Property (ownership) Property (characteristic)
• Proposition
• Propositional attitude
• Propositional calculus

Q

• Qualia
• Quality
• Quantity
• Quidditas

R

• Rasa
• Rajas
• Raja yoga
• Rationality
• Real freedom
• Reason
• Reciprocity
• Reference
• Reform
• Regress argument
  • • Research ethics Religion Ren
• Right to exist
• Righteousness
• Rights
• Ring of Gyges
• Rule of Rescue

S

• Satchidananda
• Sattva
• Sahaja
• Samarasa
• Sapere aude
• Satori
• Schema
  • • • Science Scientific law Scientific method Self
• Self-realization
• Semantics
• Sense data
• Set
• Shabda
• Shakti
• Sunyata
• Slippery slope
• Simulacrum
• Simulated reality
• Simulation hypothesis
• Sittlichkeit
  • Social construct Social contract
• Social equality
• Society
• Soku hi
• Sortal
• Soul
• Sovereignty
• Speculative reason
• State
• State of nature
• Style
• Sub specie aeternitatis
• Subject
  • Subjunctive possibility Sublime
• Substance theory
• Substantial form
• Substitution
• Suffering
  • Supererogation Supermind
• Superrationality
• Supertask
• Symbol
• Syntax

T

• Taste
• Tantra
• Teleology
  • Teleology in biology Telos
• Testimony
• The Golden Rule
• The saying and the said
• Theodicy
• Theorem
  • Theory Theory of justification
  • Thing-in-itself Thought
  • Thought experiment Thrownness
• Thumos
• Tamas
• Ti
• Time
• Trailokya (Triloka)
• Transcendent
• Transcendental apperception
• Transworld identity
• Trika
• Triratna
• Trilok (Jainism)
• Trust
• Truth
• Truth value
• Type

U

• Übermensch
• Unity of science
• Unity of the proposition
• Universal
• Universality
• Unobservable
  • Utilitarian rule Utility

V

• Validity
• Value
• Vamachara
• Vajrayana
• Vice
• Virtual
• Virtue

W

• • Well-being Well-founded phenomenon
• Wisdom
• Work of art
• Wrong

Y

• Yi
• Yoga
• Yidam

Z

• Zeitgeist