Synonyms:
doctrine, philosophy, philosophical_system, school_of_thought, ism
Meaning: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
Synonyms:
philosophy
Meaning: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
Synonyms:
philosophy
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
The Platonic Educational Philosophy.
Even to the neglect of her philosophy.
Of this spirit philosophy takes no account.
OF THE SCEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.
It was borne in the latter with decent philosophy.
"Come, you'd better let philosophy alone," he said.
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it.
There is no explaining that away by any natural philosophy.
This is the philosophy of the Egyptian "Lay of the Harper".
This is the kind of criticism which constitutes philosophy.