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• MONISM (from Gr. µ6vos, alone)

MONISM (from Gr. µ6vos, alone)  , the philosophic view of the See also:

• WORLD

world which holds that there is but one See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of reality, whether that be material or spiritual . The aim of knowledge is explanation, and the See also:

• DUALISM (from rare Lat. dualis, containing two, from duo)

dualism or See also:

• PLURALISM (Lat. plus, plures, many, several)

pluralism which acquiesces in recognizing two or more wholly disparate forms of reality has in so far renounced explanation (see DUALISM) . To this extent See also:

• MONISM (from Gr. µ6vos, alone)

monism is justified; but it becomes mischievous if it prompts us to ignore important See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in facts as they See also:

• PRESENT

present them-selves to our intelligence . All forms of monism from See also:

• PLOTINUS (A.D. 204-270)

Plotinus downwards tend to ignore See also:

• PERSONAL

personal individuality and volition, and See also:

• MERGE

merge all finite existence in the featureless unity of the See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

Absolute; this, indeed, is what inspires the See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion of the protest against monism . Turning to the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical forms of the theory we may class Plotinus as a mystical monist: he attains to the One which is the All by an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of mystic See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union raising him above the phenomenal See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere . See also:

• SPINOZA, BARUCH (1632-1677)

Spinoza is a materialistic monist with an inconsistent See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch of See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism and a certain concession, more apparent than real, to the spiritual See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of experience . See also:

• HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH (1770-1831)

Hegel's is an intellectualist monism, explaining See also:

• MATTER

matter, sensation, personal individuality and will as forms of thought . The See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of See also:

• SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR (1788-186o)

Schopenhauer and von See also:

• HARTMANN, KARL ROBERT EDUARD VON (1842–1906)
• HARTMANN, MORITZ (1821–1872)

Hartmann is a monism of See also:

• COSMIC (from Gr. Kovµos, order or universe)

cosmic will which submerges the individual no less completely than Hegelianism, though in a different manner . See also:

• HAECKEL, ERNST HEINRICH (1834- )

Haeckel's monism is See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism dignified by a higher See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title . Those who maintain that all these forms of See also:

• SYNTHESIS (Gr. a6vOeacs, from avvrcBivac, to put together)

synthesis are hasty and superficial stand by the conviction that the right philosophic attitude is to accept provisionally the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main distinctions of See also:

• COMMON

common sense, above all the distinction of personal and impersonal; but to See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press forward to the under-lying unity so far as experience and reflection justify . SeeABSOLUTE; DUALISM; See also:

• METAPHYSICS
• METAPHYSICS, or METAPHYSIC (from Gr. /sera, after, d v med, things of nature, lots, i.e. the natural universe)

METAPHYSICS; MATERIALISM; See also:

• IDEALISM (from Gr. i5Ea, archetype or model, through been urged of the truth of its point of view is the persistency Fr. idealisme)

IDEALISM .