AGNOSTICISM- MEANS ONE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. IT COMES FROM THE WORD IGNORAMUS, ONE WHO IS IGNORANT .THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN ONLY COME FROM ONES EXPERIENCE. AN AGNOSTIC IS SOMEONE WHO HAS NO PROOF THERE IS A GOD SO HOLDS BACK HIS OPINION UNTIL ALL THE FACTS ARE IN. BUT REFUSES TO SEE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACTS AS VERIFIABLE.

ACTIVISM---LIFE IS TO BE FILLED WITH ACTIONS AND ENJOYED.

ASCETICISM- A DENIAL OF PLEASURE, TO CONTROL ONES PASSIONS.

ATHEISM- A DENIAL THAT THERE IS A GOD WITHOUT ANY PROOF. AND WHEN IT IS PRESENTED HE DOES NOT FAIRLY LOOK AT IT.

CONFORMISM --- RECOGNITION BY OTHERS IS IMPERATIVE --- I AM WHAT I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE.

DEISM -CAME FROM THE 17TH -18TH CENTURY,  GOD CREATED THE WORLD BUT DOES NOT INTERVENE SUPERNATURALLY TODAY, BUT LETS LIFE IT RUN ITS COURSE. GOD IS THE FIRST CAUSE THE SOURCE OF IMMUTABLE LAWS THE WORLD OPERATES ON NATURAL AND SELF SUSTAINING LAWS IN SCIENCE. ONE CANNOT KNOW GOD FROM THE BIBLE.

EPICURIANISM- PLEASURE IS THE HIGHEST GOOD AND IDEAL IN LIFE, REGULATED WITH TEMPERANCE PEACE OF MIND AND CULTURAL PURSUITS.

HEDONISM- PLEASURE IS HAPPINESS. THE ONLY PROPER GOAL OF MORAL ENDEAVOR. ONE WHO OVERCOMES SUFFERING BY PLEASURE.

INDIVIDUALISM --- WE CAN DEPEND ON NO ONE BUT OURSELVES --- SELF SUFFICIENCY

LIBERALISM- A WORLDVIEW WITH OPEN-MINDED TOLERANCE, WANTING TO PROGRESS WITHOUT HINDRANCE BY HAVING NO BARRIERS.

MATERIALISM --- MATTER IS ALL THERE IS---I AM WHAT I'M MADE OF, OWN AND  DO. WHAT YOU SEE IS ALL THERE IS.

MODERNISM- TO BRING UP TO DATE WITH THE CURRENT VIEW OF THE CULTURE

MONOTHEISM- ONE WHO BELIEVES THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MOSLEMS, BAHAI. THERE ARE DIFFERING OPINIONS ON WHETHER THE PURSUIT TO KNOW THIS GOD CAN BE ACHIEVED. BOTH BIBLICAL JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY BELIEVE HE IS A PERSONAL GOD WHO IS KNOWABLE AND INTIMATE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

PANTHEISM- GOD IS IDENTICAL WITH THE WORLD ALL AROUND US, ALL IS GOD AND ALL IS DIVINE. GOD DOES NOT POSSESS PERSONALITY OR HAVE TRANSCENDENCE. IF GOD IS IN ALL THINGS THAN HE HAS BECOME SUBJECT T THE LAWS HE CREATED. THEN THE NATURAL LAWS BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN HE AND THEY BECOME GOD BECAUSE THE GREATER RULES OVER THE LESSER.

POLYTHEISM- ONE WHO BELIEVES IN MANY GODS. THEN ALL ARE EQUAL AND HAVE THE SAME INTELLIGENCE.

PLATONISM-THE TRUE WORLD IS THE UNSEEN WORLD OF IDEAS AND THOUGHT.

RELATIVISM --- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE SOMETHING AND YOU FEEL ITS RIGHT FOR YOU, ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE RIGHT FOR SOMEONE ELSE IT IS FOR YOU.

SECULARISM --- RELIGION IS ALL RIGHT IN ITS RIGHT PLACE --- ONE IS  SUFFICIENT WITHOUT GOD.  RELIGION IS FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T COPE ON THEIR OWN AND NEED A CRUTCH.

STOISM - REASON IS THE HIGHEST GOOD, PEOPLE ARE UNAFFECTED BY PLEASURE AND PAIN.