ESCHATOLOGY Antonyms

• a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods

• the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare

• the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural

• the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies

• a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

• (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations

• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

• the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

• a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience

• the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth

• the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

• a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

• doubt about the truth of something

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge