philosophernoun [ C ]
uk/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fər/us/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fɚ/B2 someone who studies or writes about the meaning of life:
Plato was a Greek philosopher.
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- an existentialist philosopher
- Existentialism was really an umbrella term to lump together the works of several philosophers and writers.
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Philosophy
- aesthete
- aesthetic
- anthropocentric
- Aristotle
- axiomatic
- globalist
- holism
- idealism
- individualism
- materialism
- postmodernism
- pseudo-science
- rationalism
- rationalist
- realism
- theorize
- theory
- utilitarianism
- yang
- yin
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