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What (who) is monism - definition
VIEW THAT ATTRIBUTES ONENESS OR SINGLENESS TO A CONCEPT
MonIsm; Monist; Monistic; Monistic Theism; Monistic theism; Monists; Universal substrate; Theistic monism; Monoism; Oneness (metaphysics); Antimonistic
Monism
·noun ·see Monogenesis, 1.
II. Monism ·noun That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent;
- the opposite of dualism.
III. Monism ·add. ·noun The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure.
monism
['m?n?z(?)m, 'm??-]
¦ noun Philosophy & Theology
1. a theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world.
2. the doctrine that only one supreme being exists. Compare with pluralism.
Derivatives
monist noun & adjective
monistic adjective
Origin
C19: from mod. L. monismus, from Gk monos 'single'.
Monistic
·adj Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.
Wikipedia
Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept, e.g. existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:
- Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One. In this view only the One is ontologically basic or prior to everything else.
- Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the universe, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things.
- Substance monism asserts that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance. Substance monism posits that only one kind of substance exists, although many things may be made up of this substance, e.g., matter or mind.
- Dual-aspect monism is the view that the mental and the physical are two aspects of, or perspectives on, the same substance.
- Neutral monism believes the fundamental nature of reality to be neither mental nor physical; in other words it is "neutral".
Examples of use of monism
1. "Like other radical right–wing movements in Europe," he writes, "Revisionism was a revolt against rationalism, individualism and materialism." Intellectually, revisionism was founded on ontological monism – the belief that a single force unites everything in the universe.