Philosophical movement

Scotism

A philosophical movement is either the appearance or

increased popularity of a specic school of philosophy,
or a fairly broad but identiable sea-change in philosophical thought on a particular subject. Major philosophical
movements are often characterized with reference to the
nation, language, or historical era in which they arose.

Scholasticism

3 Modern
ments

Talk of a philosophical movement can often function as

a shorthand for talk of the views of a great number of
dierent philosophers (and others associated with philosophy, such as historians, artists, scientists and political
gures). On the other hand, most philosophical movements in history consisted in a great number of individual
thinkers who disagreed in various ways; it is often inaccurate and something of a caricature to treat any movement
as consisting in followers of uniform opinion. More often the dening ideas of any philosophical movement are
templates on which individual thinkers develop their own
particular ideas.

philosophical

4 Contemporary
movements

move-

philosophical

Atheism
Deconstructionism (See also deconstructivism).
Emotivism
Postmodernism

In contrast to the idea of a philosophical movement,

the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Romanticism are
broader cultural movements that happened to be characterized by fairly distinctive philosophical concerns: although they are movements with philosophical cores, they
extend beyond the eld of philosophy into art and culture
more broadly, hence are not specic enough to philosophy to be considered movements within it.

Poststructuralism
Structuralism

5 Movements in Eastern
African philosophies

and

Like specic doctrines and theories, movements are often

given names with ism suxes. What makes a move- See Eastern philosophy for a list of Asian philosophical
ment identiable and interesting as distinct from a spe- movements. See African philosophy for a list of African
cic theory is simply that a movement consists in a large philosophical movements.
ourishing of intellectual work on one or more ideas, in a
fairly speciable time and place. Following is short list of
major philosophical movements, in rough chronological
order:

Ancient
ments

philosophical

move-

Medieval philosophical movements

Neo-Confucianism
Neoplatonism
Thomism
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