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monism
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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monism doctrine of one (supreme) being; theory which denies the duality of matter and mind. XIX. f. Gr.
mónos single; see
-ISM.
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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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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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Breard, our dualist Constitution, and the internationalist conception.(Breard v. Greene)
Magazine article from: Stanford Law Review; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...between international and domestic law--"monism" and "dualism."(5) Although there...international law is supreme over domestic law. Monism thus requires, among other things, that...definitions suggest, the debate between monism and dualism is in part a debate about...
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The Bases, Limits, and Values of Pluralism: An Engagement with William James1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...whom the contrast between pluralism and monism, as well as the arguments for each...amount of plurality, for it triumphs over monism if the smallest morsel of disconnectedness...quite' is all it says [needs to say] to monism; while monism is obliged to prove that...
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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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Omnipresence
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...a realistic theory of space. Absolute monism imagines that God and created reality...Spinoza: Deus sive natura ). Organic monism interprets the relation between God and...den Brom). See also Augustine; God; Monism; Newton, Isaac; Thomas Aquinas Bibliography...
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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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