Trending Schools of Thought in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
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Ranked
23,457
Total Views (this year)
Country
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๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
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๐จ๐ณ China
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Buddhism
Indian religion
1,297
views
views
2
naturism
movement for social nudity
1,066
views
views
3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
887
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4
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
772
views
views
5
White Rose
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy profes
737
views
views
6
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
679
views
views
7
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
614
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views
8
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
605
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views
9
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
524
views
views
10
Kanล school
school of Japanese painting, late 15th century until Meiji Period, 1868
508
views
views
11
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) โ the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit โ sharing the same substa
433
views
views
12
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
416
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views
13
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
384
views
views
14
humanism
philosophical school of thought
376
views
views
15
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
373
views
views
16
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
370
views
views
17
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
355
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views
18
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
338
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views
19
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
337
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views
20
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
329
views
views
21
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
326
views
views
22
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
302
views
views
23
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
301
views
views
24
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
288
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views
25
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
272
views
views
26
mercantilism
early economic theory
272
views
views
27
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
258
views
views
28
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
254
views
views
29
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
249
views
views
30
Chinese astrology
Astrology based on Chinese astronomy
249
views
views
31
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
239
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views
32
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
237
views
views
33
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
237
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views
34
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
226
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views
35
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
206
views
views
36
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
198
views
views
37
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
193
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views
38
German idealism
predominant philosophical movement in Germany around 1800
189
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views
39
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
189
views
views
40
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
185
views
views
41
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bรถn, and Sikhism
181
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views
42
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
176
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views
43
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
171
views
views
44
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
167
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views
45
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
165
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views
46
Bektashi Order
Islamic Sufi syncretic and mystic order
163
views
views
47
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
162
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views
48
Modern Monetary Theory
heterodox macroeconomic theory
157
views
views
49
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
155
views
views
50
fatalism
philosophical doctrine emphasising the subjugation of all events or actions to fate
152
views
views
51
Fรผhrerprinzip
principle of political authority
149
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views
52
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
148
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views
53
Post-structuralism
heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists
148
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views
54
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
147
views
views
55
historical epistemology
study of the historical conditions of, and changes in, different kinds of knowledge
145
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views
56
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
139
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views
57
Hallstein Doctrine
one-Germany policy during the Cold War
135
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views
58
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
135
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views
59
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
135
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views
60
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
131
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views
61
Truman Doctrine
United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
131
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views
62
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
127
views
views
63
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
126
views
views
64
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
124
views
views
65
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
124
views
views
66
papal infallibility
dogma of the Catholic Church; infallibility of certain decisions of the Pope
121
views
views
67
Resonance
sociological concept
118
views
views
68
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
116
views
views
69
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
115
views
views
70
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890sโ1940s)
115
views
views
71
deism
belief in God without revelation
112
views
views
72
state within the state
111
views
views
73
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
110
views
views
74
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
108
views
views
75
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
107
views
views
76
hyperfemininity
essentialist femininity
107
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views
77
divide and rule
strategy in politics and sociology for stabilizing anti-democratic, illegitimate rule over people
107
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views
78
deconstruction
critical outlook concerned with the relationship between text and meaning
106
views
views
79
Bogomilism
Christian neo-Gnostic sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century
106
views
views
80
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
105
views
views
81
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
104
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views
82
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
103
views
views
83
anti-Judaism
correlations between anti-Judaism and antisemitism
101
views
views
84
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
100
views
views
85
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Greek philosophers active before and during the time of Socrates
99
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views
86
predestination
theological doctrine
96
views
views
87
skepticism
questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma
95
views
views
88
big lie
gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth
93
views
views
89
Practice theory
Body within anthropology and sociology
90
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views
90
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
89
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views
91
Vienna Circle
former group of philosophers and scientists
88
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views
92
naturalism
belief that only natural laws, entities and forces operate in the universe
88
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views
93
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
87
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views
94
dispensationalism
Christian theology
87
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views
95
Rechtsstaat
doctrine in European legal thinking, means "state based on justice and integrity"
86
views
views
96
Darwinism
theory of biological evolution driven by natural selection
86
views
views
97
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
86
views
views
98
economic liberalism
political and economic ideology
85
views
views
99
neoclassical economics
relates to supply and demand to an individual's rationality
84
views
views
100
Orphism
set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world
83
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