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Major Philosophical Movements - CSV

Major philosophical movements represent a collection of significant intellectual movements that have shaped human inquiry from ancient Greece to the present day. Materialism, idealism, pragmatism, structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology, and others have each presented different worldviews and epistemologies, profoundly influencing diverse fields such as science, politics, art, and religion. These movements have developed through mutual influence and form the foundation of contemporary philosophical thought.

philosophy history of ideas materialism idealism pragmatism structuralism existentialism phenomenology Western philosophy

code,slug,name,description,keyFigures,period
01,materialism,Materialism,"Philosophy holding that matter is the fundamental substance of the world, and mind is a product of material processes.","[""Democritus"",""Marx"",""Engels"",""Feuerbach""]",Ancient to Modern
02,idealism,Idealism,"Philosophy holding that reality is fundamentally mental or spiritual, and the physical world depends on mind.","[""Plato"",""Berkeley"",""Kant"",""Hegel""]",Ancient to 19th Century
03,pragmatism,Pragmatism,"Philosophy holding that truth is determined by practical consequences and usefulness, judging ideas by their effects.","[""Peirce"",""James"",""Dewey""]",Late 19th to 20th Century
04,structuralism,Structuralism,"Movement holding that human culture, language, and behavior can be understood through underlying structures and systems of relationships.","[""Saussure"",""Lévi-Strauss"",""Lacan"",""Barthes""]",20th Century
05,phenomenology,Phenomenology,Philosophical methodology studying how things appear to consciousness rather than things themselves.,"[""Husserl"",""Heidegger"",""Sartre"",""Merleau-Ponty""]",20th Century
06,existentialism,Existentialism,"Philosophy holding that individual existence precedes essence, and humans create themselves through freedom and responsibility.","[""Kierkegaard"",""Nietzsche"",""Heidegger"",""Sartre"",""de Beauvoir""]",19th to 20th Century
07,rationalism,Rationalism,"Philosophy holding that reason and intellect are primary sources of knowledge, with innate ideas independent of experience.","[""Descartes"",""Spinoza"",""Leibniz""]",17th Century
08,empiricism,Empiricism,"Philosophy holding that all knowledge derives from sensory experience, with no innate ideas.","[""Locke"",""Berkeley"",""Hume""]",17th to 18th Century
09,analytic-philosophy,Analytic Philosophy,"Philosophy prioritizing clarity and logical precision, attempting to solve philosophical problems through linguistic analysis.","[""Russell"",""Wittgenstein"",""Quine"",""Frege""]",20th Century
10,postmodernism,Postmodernism,"Intellectual movement rejecting grand narratives and objective truth, emphasizing deconstruction and difference.","[""Foucault"",""Derrida"",""Lyotard""]",Late 20th Century