#arianism
- Abuladze — The surname of Georgian film director Tengiz Abuladze, a legendary figure of Soviet and world cinema, renowned for his poetic, deeply allegorical style that criticized totalitarianism. His masterpiece, the movie 'Repentance' (Monanieba, 1984), became a symbolic work of the Glasnost era, being one of the first cinematic productions to courageously and surrealiatically expose the horrors of Stalinist repressions and the absurdity of the cult of personality.
- Actualism — A geological and philosophical theory stating that the physical, chemical, and biological laws governing the Earth today have operated in the same manner and with the same intensity throughout all past geological epochs. In a philosophical sense, it represents a doctrine that reduces reality exclusively to what is actual, present, or in full development, denying the existence of purely potential forms.
- Agrarianist — Relating to agrarianism or political movements that champion rural values and agricultural property as the moral and economic foundation of society; as a noun, a proponent or representative of an agrarian political party or ideology.
- Agrarian — The feminine form of the term agrarian; relating to political streams, peasant organizations, or rural philosophical perspectives. As a noun, it designates a woman who adheres to agrarianist ideology or campaigns for the rights of farming communities.
- Agrarianism — A political and social philosophy that emphasizes the fundamental value of agricultural society, land ownership, and rural life as the backbone of national stability, morality, and democracy. It posits that farming communities possess superior ethical virtues compared to heavily industrialized centers and advocates for policies protecting small independent farmers.
- Anarchism — A neologic or etymological spelling variant for the word 'anarhism' (anarchism); a political and philosophical doctrine based on the complete rejection of any form of institutionalized authority, enforced hierarchy, and state control. It advocates for the organization of society exclusively through free, voluntary associations, mutual cooperation, and self-governance, holding that the state and its coercive structures are inherently oppressive and unnecessary for individual and collective freedom.
- Anarchism — A political and philosophical doctrine based on the complete rejection of any form of institutionalized authority, enforced hierarchy, and state control. This theory advocates for the organization of society exclusively through freely consented, voluntary associations, mutual cooperation, mutual aid, and decentralized self-governance, holding that the state and its coercive legal structures are inherently oppressive, corrupt, and unnecessary for individual and collective freedom.
- Anarchism — An archaic, regional, or foreign spelling variant (influenced by Slavic or Germanic languages) utilized in some historical documents or old political maps for the noun 'anarhism' (anarchism). It designates the political doctrine that structurally rejects coercive state authority, advocating for a horizontal society based on self-managed local communities and free agreements between individuals.
- Anti-democratic — Contrary to democracy and its fundamental principles; violating civil liberties, equality before the law, and the rule of law. The term characterizes governing systems, doctrines, manifestations, or structural decisions that exclude the free participation of the people in public life, promoting instead the oppressive centralization of power.
- Anti-democratism — An attitude, political current, doctrine, or ideological orientation opposed to democracy and its fundamental principles; a rejection of political pluralism, the rule of law, and individual liberties. This structural phenomenon manifests through the justification or promotion of authoritarian regimes, totalitarianism, and the oppressive centralization of state power.
- Antifascism — An ideological current, political movement, or civic stance grounded in radical opposition to fascism, nazism, and any form of far-right totalitarianism. It manifests through the defense of democratic values, pluralism, and fundamental liberties, with a history marked by 20th-century resistance movements and modern efforts to combat hate speech.
- Anti-mask — Opposing the mandatory or voluntary wearing of protective face masks in public or medical spaces; a social movement, dissenting attitude, or a person participating in protests against sanitary restrictions instituted during epidemics. In a structural sense, it describes a rhetoric based on defending individual freedom of choice and on skepticism toward governmental medical directives.
- Antiparliamentary — Opposing the parliamentary system, the institution of parliament, or the principles of representative democracy; criticizing, contesting, or undermining the authority and legitimacy of the legislative body. In a historical and doctrinal sense, it describes radical political speeches, attitudes, or movements that promote the centralization of power in the hands of a supreme leader or an authoritarian executive body, to the detriment of parliamentary debate.
- Anti-racist — Opposing racism or fighting against it; an advocate of anti-racism. As an adjective, it describes measures, discourses, laws, organizations, or civic movements designed to combat racial discrimination and segregation. As a noun, it denotes a person who takes an active stance, theoretically or practically, against supremacist ideologies, campaigning for the equality of all ethnic groups.
- Anti-racist — The feminine form of antirasist; a woman campaigning against racism, or an orientation, action, or measure of an inclusive nature that opposes discrimination and segregation based on ethnic or racial criteria. The term describes an active civic stance aimed at deconstructing stereotypes and guaranteeing equal opportunities for all human groups within social and institutional structures.
- Anti-totalitarianism — A political doctrine, ideological attitude, or philosophical stance based on the radical rejection of totalitarianism, fascism, state communism, and any form of coercive governmental totality. It represents a conceptual framework that unites various democratic orientations, sharing as a common denominator the defense of the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, ideological pluralism, and the protection of the individual against the absolute interference of the state apparatus.
- Antitrinitarian — Opposing the Christian dogma of the Holy Trinity, denying the full divinity of Jesus Christ as co-equal with God the Father, or viewing the Holy Spirit merely as a manifestation of divine power; a person belonging to a religious movement based on this theological conception (such as ancient Arianism or Reformation-era Unitarianism).
- Antitrinitarian — The feminine form of the term antitrinitar; it characterizes a doctrine, a church, a religious movement, or a community that rejects the dogma of the Holy Trinity. It also designates a female adherent to Unitarian or Arian theological principles, advocating for the absolute oneness of the deity and denying the co-essentiality of Jesus Christ with God the Father.
- Anti-trinitarianism — A theological movement, heterodox Christian doctrine, or ideological stance manifested throughout church history, characterized by the explicit rejection of the dogma of the Trinity. With roots in the monarchianism and Arianism of the early centuries, anti-trinitarianism structured itself as a major movement during the Radical Reformation through Unitarianism and Socinianism, promoting the idea that God is a single, absolute person.
- Apollinarianism — A 4th-century christological heresy, initiated by Apollinaris of Laodicea, which asserted that Jesus Christ possessed a human body and a lower soul, but that the human rational mind (nous) was completely replaced by the divine Logos. This doctrine diminished the full humanity of the Savior and was officially condemned at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381) to preserve the dogma of the two full natures.