Trending Schools of Thought in Germany this month
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this month on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
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15,352
Total Views (this month)
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Buddhism
Indian religion
939
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2
naturism
movement for social nudity
672
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3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
590
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4
White Rose
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy profes
588
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5
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
545
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6
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
430
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7
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
386
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8
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
383
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9
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
354
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10
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
304
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11
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
275
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12
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
266
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13
humanism
philosophical school of thought
265
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14
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
235
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15
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
234
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16
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
229
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17
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
216
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18
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
216
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19
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
206
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20
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
203
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21
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
200
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22
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
199
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23
Assumption of Mary
the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life, dogma of the Catholic Church
197
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24
First Viennese School
composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Bee
195
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25
mercantilism
early economic theory
192
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26
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
170
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27
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
169
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28
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
167
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29
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
166
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views
30
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
162
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views
31
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
155
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views
32
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
153
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views
33
Chinese astrology
Astrology based on Chinese astronomy
143
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34
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
135
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35
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
133
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36
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
132
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37
German idealism
predominant philosophical movement in Germany around 1800
131
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38
Modern Monetary Theory
heterodox macroeconomic theory
131
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39
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
128
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40
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
125
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41
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
120
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42
fatalism
philosophical doctrine emphasising the subjugation of all events or actions to fate
116
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43
Führerprinzip
principle of political authority
111
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44
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
111
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views
45
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
109
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views
46
Hallstein Doctrine
one-Germany policy during the Cold War
106
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47
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
106
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48
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
103
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49
Post-structuralism
heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists
103
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50
Bektashi Order
Islamic Sufi syncretic and mystic order
103
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51
historical epistemology
study of the historical conditions of, and changes in, different kinds of knowledge
102
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views
52
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
102
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53
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
97
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views
54
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
93
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views
55
Resonance
sociological concept
93
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views
56
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
92
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views
57
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
90
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views
58
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
88
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views
59
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
87
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60
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
84
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views
61
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
84
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views
62
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
82
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views
63
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
82
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views
64
Truman Doctrine
United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
82
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views
65
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
81
views
views
66
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
80
views
views
67
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
79
views
views
68
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
73
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views
69
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Greek philosophers active before and during the time of Socrates
71
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70
Practice theory
Body within anthropology and sociology
71
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71
deism
belief in God without revelation
71
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72
Rechtsstaat
doctrine in European legal thinking, means "state based on justice and integrity"
69
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73
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
69
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views
74
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
69
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views
75
anti-Judaism
correlations between anti-Judaism and antisemitism
67
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views
76
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
67
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views
77
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
67
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views
78
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
67
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views
79
economic liberalism
political and economic ideology
65
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views
80
deconstruction
critical outlook concerned with the relationship between text and meaning
65
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views
81
divide and rule
strategy in politics and sociology for stabilizing anti-democratic, illegitimate rule over people
64
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views
82
transcendental idealism
epistemology, proposed by Kant, in which space and time are merely formal features of how we perceive objects, not things in themselves that
64
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views
83
Bogomilism
Christian neo-Gnostic sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century
64
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84
papal infallibility
dogma of the Catholic Church; infallibility of certain decisions of the Pope
64
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views
85
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
62
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86
Darwinism
theory of biological evolution driven by natural selection
61
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views
87
state within the state
61
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views
88
naturalism
belief that only natural laws, entities and forces operate in the universe
58
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views
89
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
57
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90
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
57
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views
91
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
57
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92
skepticism
questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma
56
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93
Orphism
set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world
56
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94
perennial philosophy
15th-century philosophical idea that views all religious traditions as sharing a single truth or origin
56
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95
neoclassical economics
relates to supply and demand to an individual's rationality
55
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96
divine right of kings
political and religious doctrine of the legitimacy of monarchs
54
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views
97
predestination
theological doctrine
53
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views
98
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
53
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99
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
52
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100
scientism
belief that science is the best or only means to truth
52
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