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monism
monism In
metaphysics, doctrine that reality consists of a single unifying substance, or that the mental and physical are indivisible.
Spinoza saw this substance as God, while
Hegel believed it was the Spirit. German philosopher Christian Wolf (1679–1734) coined the term monism. It contrasts with
dualism. See also
pluralism
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NEUTRAL MONISM AND THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...unacceptable. Amid this struggle, neutral monism lies as a neglected option, treated as...of this essay is suggest that neutral monism is indeed the solution to the problem...Defining Physicalism In affirming neutral monism, I shall be denying physicalism, and...
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Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'. By G. GLEN WICKENS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London...
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Against liberal monism.(on secularism & religion)
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discourse-namely, to strip public life of religious markers, emblems, and ceremony. I have called this position liberal monism, for its origins lie in certain strands of classical liberal political philosophy. This position holds that all institutions...
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What is Plura-Monism?
Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; WHAT IS PLURA-MONISM, or, who is Pluramon? An answer by Stockhausen follows: I've called this [the end of the Fourth Region of Hymnen] the hymn...
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Jewish knowing: monism and its ramifications.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; Though it may no longer be fashionable to invoke the platonic concept of a dualistic body/soul anthropology, one of its basic assumptions - that the rational element of human beings is in some way distinct and separable from at least most of the body - is still very much with us. When we discuss
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Jewish knowing: Monism and its ramifications
Magazine article from: Judaism; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; THOUGH IT MAY NO LONGER BE FASHIONABLE TO INVOKE the platonic concept of a dualistic body/soul anthropology, one of its basic assumptions-that the rational element of human beings is in some way distinct and separable from at least most of the body-is still very much with us. When we discuss the
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Re: Philosophical Rationalism Or Monism: a Case for Philosopho-Theological Rationalism -2.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 9/2/2003; 700+ words
; Sep 02, 2003 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) Whence comes this claim, that all good acts is attributable to God, while all evil is attributable to man. Perhaps, this is an error borne out of misapprehension of the concept good with respect to human acts, and the good of fortune. A
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Re: Philosophical Rationalism Or Monism: A Case for Philosopho-Theological Rationalism.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 9/2/2003; 700+ words
; Sep 01, 2003 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) As usual, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was lucid with his observations, expressed in "From Philosophical Rationalism to Monistic Theosophy: Observations on Banu Az-Zubair's Comment (1 published on Gamji. However, lucidity and accuracy are not
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Caught by Our Dangling Paradigms: How Our Metaphysical Assumptions Influence Gifted Education
Magazine article from: The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the nature of reality. Materialistic monism views the universe as being made up of...well as consciousness. Transcendental monism views the universe as being made up of consciousness. Currently, materialistic monism is the predominant view in our society...
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In the Clearing: continuity and unity in Frost's dualism.(Robert Frost)
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...strong criticism of Emerson's idealistic monism. (1) Indeed, the years 1958-1959...criticism of both the spiritual form of monism, which denies the reality of matter...incredibly optimistic idealism in Emerson's monism. In "The Future of Man" he rebuffed...
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Monism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Moreover, the assumption of monism (particularly of physicalist...complexity. A further advantage of monism is that, unlike pluralism...physicalist) and idealist monisms, there is also neutral monism and anomalous monism. The first...
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monism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
monism [Gr.,=belief in one], in metaphysics, term introduced in the 18th cent. by Christian...or Deity, of which body and mind are attributes that are held in equipoise. The opposites of monism are dualism and pluralism .
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Pluralism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...as one can distinguish substantival monism (everything is explicable in terms of one thing) from attributive monism (everything is explicable in terms...Like substantival and attributive monism, substantival and attributive pluralism...
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Isaiah Berlin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...picture of history are the interrelated concepts of monism and pluralism. Monism represents the tendency on the part of human beings...subordinate individual values to larger social values. Monism is, in many respects, utopian. Monists tend to...
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Mind-Brain Interaction
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...then made to explain how mental causation is possible. Anomalous monism The most influential theory of mental causation of the last quarter of the twentieth century was anomalous monism, advocated by Donald Davidson (b. 1917), Professor of Philosoph
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