List of philosophical concepts

See also: Glossary of philosophy

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## C[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## H[edit]

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

## I[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Judgement
* Jus sanguinis
* Jus soli
* Just war
* Justice

## K[edit]

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

## L[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Object
* Objectivity
* Obligation
* Om
* Omphalos hypothesis
* Ontology

## P[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Qualia
* Quality
* Quantity
* Quidditas

## R[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## V[edit]

* Validity
* Value
* Vamachara
* Vajrayana
* Vice
* Virtual
* Virtue

## W[edit]

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

## Y[edit]

* Yi
* Yoga
* Yidam

## Z[edit]

* Zeitgeist

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