Synonyms for philosophy
fɪˈlɒs ə fiphi·los·o·phy

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.2 / 13 votes

1. doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ismnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, philosophical system, school of thought, ism

2. philosophynoun

   the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

   Synonyms:
   ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

3. philosophynoun

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

   "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"

   Synonyms:
   ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

Matched Categories

1. • Belief
   • Humanistic Discipline

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   science of causes or first principles, science of the absolute, the science of sciences

2. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   principles (of any department of knowledge), laws

3. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   hypothesis, theory, system, doctrine

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "philosophy":

   filosofía, philosophical, ethos, philo, thinking, philosopher, logic

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1. Francis Bacon:

   Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

2. Christopher Kang:

   I think that is really striking. We would not have used clerks to talk about a judge's political philosophy.

3. Albert Camus:

   There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

4. Simone Weil:

   When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

5. Giacomo Leopardi:

   Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.