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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Monism"”.
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and Ethical Monism as a Means of Reconciling Christian Theology and Modern Thought
This dissertation examines the role of ethical monism in the theology of Augustus Hopkins Strong. Chapter 1 discusses some of the reasons for examining Strong's theology and some of the difficulties entailed in such a study. Chapter 2 surveys the life of Strong up until the time when he returned to …
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The Theosophical Society and politics: esoteric discourse, esoteric monism, and theosophical identity in late 19th and early 20th century Britain and Ireland
… and it is argued that the concept of ‘esoteric monism’ provides the most cogent explanation for the connection between esotericism and politics in these cases.
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The Entanglement of Anzaldúan Materiality as Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, and Interrelatedness
… modern philosophy which advanced a theory of monism, and contemporary philosophies that further extends monism into new terrain, including 'new materialism.' While monism is a strand of this project, the core features of this project are materiality and bodies; these two concepts create the …
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Dialektikah verharmoniyah betefisot hahistoryah vehameshihiyut shel ha-Rav Kook
… existence from the point of view of ontological monism. The monism is inherent even in the center of the theoretical method, or in the words of Rav Kook: "The various thoughts actually don't contradict each other, everything is but a unitary revelation which appears in different sparks".
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Problems With Truth: Scope, Mixing, and Truth Pluralism
… inflationary theories of truth. Truth monism claims that there is one explanatory story which accounts for the truth of all and only true propositions. There seem to be, however, certain domains of discourse wherein monistic theories fail. If monistic theories cannot provide an …
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De Heidegger à Henry, critique de la transcendance et phénoménologie du corps vivant
… then turn to Henry’s criticism of transcendental monism and its phenomenological derealization. Henry subsequently argues for a new thinking of immanence, which requires a redefinition of phenomenology through the immediate experience of the embodied self. This immediate immanence manifests …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… subtitle. The first, "Aristotle against Eleatic monism", analyses Aristotle's refutation of Eleatic monism in Physics 1.2-3 in parallel with Plato's parricide of Parmenides (Sophist 242b6-5e5) and then compares the Physics' refutation with Aristotle's treatment of the Eleatics in Metaphysics …
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Changing the Paradigm: a Theory of Human Development Based on the Emergence of Nonduality
… nonduality and regressive nonduality (or monism) --and that they are not the same thing. I then propose that (progressive) nonduality is a paradigm shift. Nonduality is explored as a way of mind-body attunement, and, subsequently, is required for individual growth, societal success, and …
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Geometric Possibility, Ideological Parsimony, and Monistic Substantivalism
… regions'), then analyses of location unique to monism will turn out to be inadequate.
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
… a divine source, thereby committing himself to a monism and emanative panentheism that is essentially Neoplatonic. Further, for both Neoplatonism and Spinoza, this monism and panentheism grounds a conception of the good life where the human soul attains a unitive knowledge and love of God. This …
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Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
… Earth. III: The inter-dependency of Dualism and Monism, including the mind and/or the world as a stairway to heaven. IV: Scientific laws are synonymous with spiritual principles. V: The holistic cosmos, including the concept of ‘sympathy’ between its parts. The aim of this thesis is to make clear …
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Panpsychism And Mind-Dust
… in many ways similar to the epistemic neutral monism of Bertrand Russell, but is also a novel version of panpsychism. The suggestion is simply this: it might be the case that we should think of the world as inherently and ontologically qualitative in nature. I call this resultant position …
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NIETZSCHE. ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΛΑΠΛΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΣΚΑΣ
… THEREFORE TO DIRECT HIS THINKING TO A KIND OF MONISM) ALONGSIDE MULTIPLICITY. THIS STUDYNOW TURNS TO A NEW INVESTIGATION OF THE AFORE-MENTIONED RELATIONSHIP BETWEENMULTIPLICITY AND UNITY, AND POSES THE QUESTION AS TO WHAT EXTENT MULTIPLICITYIS ABOVE ALL THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENT, AND THEREFORE TO …
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Soul searching : an exploration of the relationship between technology and soul through the interpretation of contemporary visual texts
… namely dualism as found in the gnostic approach, monism as it manifests in the animistic approach, and finally the physicalist approach. Gray (2010:638) considers these three approaches as amongst the most common worldviews in contemporary society, thus these provide a diverse yet comprehensive …
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The Good Sport: Physical Literacy and a Moral Self
… firmly rooted in the philosophical concepts of monism, existentialism, and phenomenology. In accordance with existential philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, who argue human beings are fundamentally beings-in-the-world, physical literacy purports physically literate individuals should …
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The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
… leads not to pluralism but to a broad or narrow monism, depending on the number of shared values, since it fatally undermines the strong sense of incommensurability which is the defining characteristic of pluralism as a distinct and radical doctrine. Alongside his view that values are commonly …
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Negative and Positive Philosophy in the late work of Fichte and Schelling
… identified with German Idealism, namely holistic monism. I further attempt to elucidate the steps both thinkers take towards providing an alternative account of systematicity. In the first part of the thesis I examine the roots of the distinction between negative and positive philosophy in the …
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To amend, repeal or enact: Analysing the legislation that regulate anti-illicit financial flows in Namibia's Natural Resources Sector
… framework, this dissertation engages in the monism versus dualism debate to ascertain Namibia's position concerning international law within its territory. Evaluating Namibia's international law position and the treaties that apply in Namibia allows this dissertation to ascertain whether the …
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Egalitarianism, Perfectionism & Support for the Arts
… the truth of an undefended, highly contentious monism about value The purpose for introducing the Levelling Down Objection in chapter 1 is made clear in chapter 3, where I suggest a new problem for egalitarians. Equality is a comparative relation holding between people. Relations are not …
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What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
… laws can be challenged. A second model, ‘power monism’, enriches the primitive ontology to include a ‘cosmic power’ that transforms the power-atoms into a cosmic whole, and supports an Aristotelian-essentialist conception of laws (Chapter 6). This model overcomes the difficulties with power …
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