However, Tocqueville offers additional insights into how modern society tends toward
monism. He argues that in an age of equality, "it becomes an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything, to include a great number of objects under the same formula, and to explain a group of facts by one sole cause" (p.
Since Plato,
monism fell in disrepute and was replaced by a tendency to place unity and plurality together; proclaiming unity in spite of diversity.
Therefore, aside from the fact that one finds a considerable variety of cosmological views among them, which would imply different shades of
monism, I deem it inappropriate to set those attempts or suggestions advanced by the Neo-Confucian philosophers (who never demanded that people should accept their cosmological insights by faith) against the Christian tenet, "I believe in one God, Creator of Heaven and Earth."
As such Reality, as outlined in Surjective
Monism, has 7 (seven) meta-differential ontic-epistemic levels.
The legal
monism is derived from the conception that both international Law and national Law are part of the same legal system.
143) The position is a radical
monism in that all dichotomies are eschewed.
This view about the relation of
monism and dualism to the question
Paradoxism may be seen as a continuous loop, which warps back on itself, as a kind of "dualistic
monism" or "monistic dualism", or as the kind of synthesis that "swallows-up" all dualistic polar opposites into itself, negates the exclusive validity of any one side of pair of opposites, including the pair dualism and nondualism (
monism)-and thus "transcends" both.
Central to the collection is a critique of dispositional
monism (or pandispositionalism), the view that all fundamental properties are ungrounded powers.
This consistent stuff is sometimes beaten thin and sometimes it is quite weighty, in keeping with the poem's self-description in part 2: it is "about the pre-socratic idea of the // dispositional axis from stone to wind, wind / to stone (with my elaborations, if any)." Or, more precisely, it is about the doctrine of material
monism expounded by Anaximenes "in a plain and unadorned Ionic diction," according to the report of Diogenes Laertius.
Amma creates her vision of spirituality by drawing on the universalistic
monism of Advaita Vedantic [Hindu] discourses and offering an expansive interpretation of Hinduism.