- Agnosticism
- The refusal to choose between believing in a god and not believing.
- Altruism
- A system of ethics that promotes actions that benefit other people, usually requiring self-sacrifice.
- Atheism
- The lack of a belief in gods.
- Benevolence
- The virtue of understanding that people have their own goals and desires, and promoting opportunities for cooperation by making interaction valuable, pleasant, and easy.
- Benevolent Universe Premise
- A view of the world that suggests we are well adapted to live in it.
- Capitalism
- A political system that acknowledges and protects individual rights.
- Communism
- A political system where the government directly controls all property or wealth.
- Context
- The conditions or circumstances in which something exists.
- Dichotomy
- A pair of categories that are mutually exclusive, and exhaustive.
- Emotions
- An automatic response based on a person's subconsciously held value-judgments.
- Epistemology
- The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge and our means of gaining it.
- Evasion
- A mental process of willfully suppressing your knowledge of the world.
- Fascism
- A political system where the government indirectly controls property through economic policy, regulations and controls.
- Fraud
- A form of theft enacted by making a trade based on a lie, and keeping the property in spite of the property transfer conditions not being satisfied.
- Harmony of Interests
- When the interests of individuals are aligned such that a benefit to one is generally a benefit to the others.
- Honesty
- The virtue of seeking the truth.
- Idealism/Pragmatism dichotomy
- The belief that being practical and having moral principles are in opposition, and you must choose one or the other.
- Independence
- The virtue of self-reliance.
- Individual Rights
- Social boundaries that permit individuals to act to promote their lives without forceful interference by others.
- Inflation
- An increase in the supply of money, which often results in a general increase in the price of goods and services.
- Integration
- A process of connecting individual ideas into a cohesive unity.
- Integrity
- The virtue of living by your moral principles.
- Intrinsic/Objective/Subjective Trichotomy
- Three opposing views of the nature of values.
- Justice
- The virtue of treating others how they deserve to be treated.
- Law of Identity
- The philosophical premise that every entity has a specific nature, existing in a particular way.
- Logic
- The art of non-contradictory identification.
- Malevolent Universe Premise
- The view that the world is inhospitable and that life consists of a constant struggle for survival.
- Metaphysics
- The branch of philosophy that deals with that nature of reality.
- Mind-body Dichotomy
- A view that separates one's mind and body into distinct and unrelated areas.
- Monopoly
- A government policy to prevent freedom of competition within some area of the market.
- Moral/Practical Dichotomy
- The belief that morality conflicts with your practical interests, or that they are unrelated concerns.
- Morality/Ethics
- A system for making decisions about what you should value or how you should act.
- Objective Reality
- The world exists on its own, independent of our wishes, feelings, or desires.
- Objectivity
- A method of evaluating knowledge based on whether it conforms to reality or not.
- Practice-Theory dichotomy
- The belief that theoretical models do not or cannot properly reflect reality, and so it is natural that when put into practice, the results will be unexpected.
- Pride
- The virtue of liking yourself, and making yourself worthy of it.
- Productiveness
- The virtue of seeking and achieving values.
- Prudent Predators
- Someone who promotes individual rights and pretends to adhere to them, but secretly violates them whenever he expects to get away with it.
- Rationality
- The virtue of understanding the world in order to effectively live in it.
- Reason-Emotion dichotomy
- The false view that reason and emotions are unrelated and often opposing.
- Sacrifice
- An action that in objective terms costs you more than you actually benefited.
- Second-hander
- A person who looks to others to decide his values or beliefs.
- Self-esteem
- An assessment of yourself that consists of believing you are competent to live your life and worthy of living it.
- Selfish
- Concerned with benefiting oneself.
- Sense of Life
- An emotional equivalent of a worldview, developed through a process of emotional integration over a lifetime.
- Standard of Evaluation
- A criteria by which you can compare multiple things, allowing you to judge them.
- Trader Principle
- The ethical principle that states we should offer value for value with other people.
- Value
- That which you act to gain and/or keep.
- Virtues
- A recognition of a moral principle that describes a causal connection between means and ends in order to pursue values.
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