Sentences with monism
mon·ism
M m - Instead they have refused assimilation and present themselves as the monistic alternative to the monism of Western modernity.
- A truly monistic view is Spinoza's monism, which holds that there is only one substance, which can be called God or Nature.
- His philosophy of monism claimed that the many things which appear to exist are merely a single eternal reality which he called Being.
- If this step from monotheism to monism goes too far, in what ways can Judaism respond to a postmodern desire for Oneness?
- Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death.
- Paganism on the other hand has adopted a worldview based on monism, where duality is more often perceived as aspects of an encompassing whole.
- Theism might always be about meaning, but what religion would look like if monism were asserted against theism is an open question.