Schools of Philosophy

A school of philosophy is an organized tradition, movement or line of teaching that outlives any one thinker: Stoicism, Vedanta, German Idealism, logical positivism and their kind. Each school is placed under whichever of ethics, epistemology, metaphysics or political philosophy names its central preoccupation, with a handful of narrower branches folded into the nearest of those four rather than left as single-member groups. This category excludes a single philosopher's personal position, however influential, unless a wider community of adherents and successors took it up as a shared method or doctrine.