Ism's

Allereerst het woordenboek

 Webster definieert een "ism" als:

• a - als zelfstandignaamwoord noun
• 1 : a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory
• 2 : an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or belief. we all have got to come to grips with our isms —Joycelyn Elders
• b -als suffix
• 1 a : act : practice : process (criticism / plagiarism)
• b : manner of action or behavior characteristic of a (specified) person or thing (animalism)
• c : prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a (specified) attribute (racism / sexism)
• 2 a : state : condition : property (barbarianism)
• b : abnormal state or condition resulting from excess of a (specified) thing (alcoholism) or marked by resemblance to (such) a person or thing (giantism)
• 3 a : doctrine : theory : religion  (Buddhism)
• b : adherence to a system or a class of principles (stoicism)
• 4 : characteristic or peculiar feature or trait (colloquialism)

In een filosofiewerk kom je ze vaak tegen heb ik gemerkt en dus heb ik eens een lijstje gemaakt (ik begin zelf ook een lijstenmens* te worden, zo lijkt het)

Filosofische werken 

In filosofische werken kom je dus veel ism's tegen, waarvan hier een algemene lijst:

• organism, criticism, capitalism, marxism, nihilism, pessimism, antagonism, scepticism, materialism, mechanism, idealism, egoism, socialism, fetishism, buddhism, syllogism, judaism, racism, stoicism, feminism, romanticism, optimism, fascism, realism, nationalism, cynicism, dogmatism, asceticism, individualism, pantheism, brahmanism, altruism, post-structuralism, anti-semitism, communism, protestantism, mysticism, theism, liberalism, rationalism, formalism, feudalism, antidescriptivism, atheism, heroism, fatalism, historicism, stalinism, classicism, empiricism, scholasticism, schism, fanaticism, evolutionism, paganism, thatcherism, messianism, magnetism, catholicism, relativism, humanism, determinism, reductionism, naturalism, witticism, totalitarianism, automatism, universalism, mercantilism, populism, anarchism, symbolism, spiritualism, patriotism, positivism, postmodernism, radicalism, barbarism, descriptivism, cosmopolitanism, post-marxism, despotism, obscurantism, imperialism, baptism, utopianism, dualism, quietism, spinozism, masculinism, structuralism, nominalism, sophism, conservatism, essentialism, kynicism, darwinism, cartesianism, atomism, phenomenalism, pragmatism, schematism, terrorism, egotism, islamism, journalism, nazism, neologism, parallelism, exoticism, self-criticism, vegetarianism, fixism, anachronism, hedonism, pelagianism, cism, criticism, aphorism, modernism, militarism, ism, anthropo-narcissism, philistinism, charlatanism, economism, psychologism, fundamentalism, graphism, castratism, hegelism, utilitarianism, narcissism, internationalism, monism, deism, panhellenism, parasitism, poeticism, existentialism, machiavellianism, platonism, archaism, heroism, euphemism, lyricism, moralism, egalitarianism, perspectivism, activism, holism, deconstructionism, vitalism, jansenism, consumerism, ventriloquism, causalism, atavism, chemism, dynamism, somnambulism, anti-humanism, factionalism, sexism, rabbinism, galvanism, anti-essentialism, anti-representationalism, exorcism, anti-racism, sufism, chauvinism, mohammedanism, semitism, opportunism, monasticism, anti-psychologism, aristocratism, poststructuralism, plagiarism, pascalism, provincialism, pythagoreanism, autism, offetishism, biologism, anti-naturalism, brownianism, republicanism, buddhaism

Toen ben ik gaan kijken in een gewone niet filosofische biografie, hoe het dan zit met deze ism's**:

• criticism, despotism, hedonism, heroism, idealism, liberalism, mechanism, militarism, patriotism, populism, republicanism, schism, stoicism, symbolism, witticism

Of deze***:

 

• anachronism, aphorism, philistinism, plagiarism

Dit zijn wel weer filosofische werken (bio's) en dan is de lijst toch een stuk kleiner:

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 * in analogie naar Tim Ferris van wie ik die "obsessie" noteerde

** / *** biografie van Brutus of die van Gould

 

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Filosofie-als-een-verzameling...(isms)