Philosophies

Tom and Mary have different philosophies of life.

Their philosophies are identical.

Enlightenment philosophies applied new ways of understanding.

For the far right, "postmodernism" is everything they don't like from a wide variety of mutually contradictory philosophies melded into one philosophy advanced by an all-powerful straw opponent who controls all of academia, the media, and politics.

What happened with Protestant conversions from Roman Catholicism in my extended family didn't go far enough for me, as I had a tendency for Buddhism since prepubescence, largely from sci-fi shows like Star Trek with Mr. Spock's Vulcan philosophy and Space: 1999 with aliens meditating in glass cubicles. I was impressionable to these images and ideas at a young age. By my thirties, I became interested in other Eastern philosophies like Daoism and Hinduism. Things like Baptism, Pentecostal, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. weren't far enough for me...

All philosophies of the classic type have made a fixed and fundamental distinction between two realms of existence.

Some of Greene's views are influenced by high-minded modern philosophies including existentialism. But she is also grounded in the down-to-earth realities of New York City's schools, where she inspired the creation of the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry in 2005.