Vocabulary: Word List 8 - Philosophy

solipsism : the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. relativism : the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute. asceticism : the principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity. the doctrine that the ascetic life releases the soul from bondage to the body and permits union with the divine. austerity : the quality of being austere; the trait of great self-de...