is a specific kind of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought.

is a broader term that covers: aesthetic, esthetic | Aristotelianism, peripateticism | conceptualism | Confucianism | deconstruction, deconstructionism | empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism | environmentalism | existential philosophy, existentialism, existentialist philosophy | determinism | formalism | hereditarianism | idealism | intuitionism | logicism | materialism, physicalism | mechanism | mentalism | nativism | naturalism | Neoplatonism | nominalism | operationalism | Platonism, realism | pragmatism | probabilism | rationalism | naive realism, realism | relativism | Scholasticism | semiology, semiotics | sensationalism, sensualism | solipsism | Stoicism | subjectivism | Daoism, Taoism | teleology | traditionalism | vitalism ... show more.