philosophy

A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil.

A new beginning or rebirth; regeneration.

To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

A state of disheartening hopelessness.

Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

Of or relating to somaesthetics.

Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.

Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.

One who studies, or is an expert in, physiognomy; one who studies the outer appearance of the person (primarily the face) to acquire knowledge of the inner personality.

The state or quality of being connected.

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

One who hates all mankind; one who hates the human race.

(by extension) Difficult to accept; unpalatable.

Morally or ethically acceptable.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss

A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation.

A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance.

To become radical; to adopt a radical political stance.

To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing

(of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.