All Metaphysics

Schools and movements whose defining doctrine concerns the fundamental nature of reality, being, mind and world. Belongs here: idealist, materialist, monist and dualist systems, and the major Vedanta and Daoist metaphysical schools, together with Scholasticism and Neoplatonism whose organizing questions are chiefly ontological and theological, and Phenomenology, whose founding question of being makes it a metaphysical movement even though it also shaped philosophy of mind. Does not belong here: schools organized chiefly around a theory of knowledge, grouped under Epistemology, or of the state, grouped under Political Philosophy.