- Rationalism: The theory that human reason can be the source of all knowledge. 
 
    - Humanism: A range of ethical views that consider human nature to be the source of morality. 
 
    - Reductionism: A complex system is nothing more than the sum of parts and can be understood by defining its individual components separately. 
 
    - Solipsism: Knowledge of anything outside one's own specific mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. 
 
    - Deism: Reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organised religion, can determine that a supreme being created the universe. This deity does not intervene in human affairs or suspend the natural laws of the universe. 
 
    - Eudaimonism: A system of ethics that evaluates actions in terms of their capacity to produce happiness. 
 
    - Contextualism: A range of views that argue that a phenomenon can only be properly understood within the context it occured. 
 
    - Feminism: A range of social and moral philosophies concerned with the experience of women in society, most often with the intent of eradicating gender inequality. 
 
  
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