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单词 monism
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Definition of monism in English:

monism

noun ˈməʊnɪz(ə)mˈmɒnɪz(ə)m
Theology Philosophy
  • 1A theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality in a particular sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world.

    〔哲,神学〕一元论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He combined ancient classical humanism with Oriental metaphysics to ratify his own down-to-earth brand of philosophical monism.
    • Paganism on the other hand has adopted a worldview based on monism, where duality is more often perceived as aspects of an encompassing whole.
    • Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death.
    • His philosophy of monism claimed that the many things which appear to exist are merely a single eternal reality which he called Being.
    • The coherence theory builds in a metaphysical bias towards monism: the idea that everything we know should somehow form one massive ‘complete theory of everything’.
    1. 1.1 The doctrine that only one supreme being exists.
      一神论。比较PLURALISM
      Compare with pluralism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Theism might always be about meaning, but what religion would look like if monism were asserted against theism is an open question.
      • If this step from monotheism to monism goes too far, in what ways can Judaism respond to a postmodern desire for Oneness?

Derivatives

  • monist

  • adjective & noun ˈmɒnɪstˈməʊnɪst
    Philosophy Theology
    • In considering how such tensions can be resolved there is an important difference between monists and pluralists in philosophy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Only monists and missionaries think that differences must be removed, or that differences will just disappear once everyone is ‘liberated’ and free to see the light.
      • The generality of physics is a monist principle.
      • By contrast, the claim that the distinction is purely semantic is congenial to a monist position, whether nomological or anomalous.
      • The other thing that interests me is that the Hippocratics were in a sense the first monists rather than dualists and by that I mean that they argued that the mind equalled the brain.
  • monistic

  • adjective mɒˈnɪstɪk
    Philosophy Theology
    • A truly monistic view is Spinoza's monism, which holds that there is only one substance, which can be called God or Nature.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead they have refused assimilation and present themselves as the monistic alternative to the monism of Western modernity.
      • We presented the monistic theology, held by many Hindus and supported by the Vedas and Agamas, that God is the creator of souls.
      • It will not succeed in this task if it tries to describe reality neutrally in a perspective of observation, whether this occurs in the form of a monistic or pluralistic metaphysics.
      • Totalitarianism rejects these commitments in the name of a monistic vision of human life and an all-powerful government that seeks to implement that vision.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin monismus, from Greek monos 'single'.

Definition of monism in US English:

monism

noun
Theology Philosophy
  • 1A theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality in some sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world.

    〔哲,神学〕一元论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Paganism on the other hand has adopted a worldview based on monism, where duality is more often perceived as aspects of an encompassing whole.
    • His philosophy of monism claimed that the many things which appear to exist are merely a single eternal reality which he called Being.
    • The coherence theory builds in a metaphysical bias towards monism: the idea that everything we know should somehow form one massive ‘complete theory of everything’.
    • Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death.
    • He combined ancient classical humanism with Oriental metaphysics to ratify his own down-to-earth brand of philosophical monism.
    1. 1.1 The doctrine that only one supreme being exists.
      一神论。比较PLURALISM
      Compare with pluralism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If this step from monotheism to monism goes too far, in what ways can Judaism respond to a postmodern desire for Oneness?
      • Theism might always be about meaning, but what religion would look like if monism were asserted against theism is an open question.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin monismus, from Greek monos ‘single’.

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