- Physicalism
- The inclination to treat the physical as the basic account of what exists.
- Idealism
- The inclination to treat mind, experience, or an ideal order as basic. Not a synonym for spirituality.
- Empiricism
- The inclination to give observation the leading role in knowledge of the world.
- Rationalism
- The inclination to treat reasoning as able to reach truths observation does not first deliver.
- Consequentialism
- The inclination to make rightness depend primarily on outcomes.
- Deontology
- The inclination to hold that some acts are wrong even when their outcomes are better.
- Determinism
- The claim that the past and the laws settle what a person will choose.
- Libertarian free will
- The metaphysical claim that a genuine choice was not already settled. Not a political position.
- Compatibilism
- The view that responsibility does not require an unsettled will. It is not the midpoint of the agency axis.
- Discovery
- The inclination to treat meaning as answerable to worth the person did not invent.
- Creation
- The inclination to treat commitment as able to give a life weight. Not nihilism.
- Individual priority
- The inclination to treat the person as a limit on the group. Not a party.
- Communal priority
- The inclination to treat membership as a source of duties. Not a party.
- Archetype
- An editorial name for one of the 64 pole combinations. Not a personality type.