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US
/ˈmɑnɪzəm/
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NOUN
- the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element
How To Use monism In A Sentence
- When President Obama or Secretary Clinton lauds “smart power” as a self-sufficient counter to Islamofascism, Red Chinese hegemonism or Russian truculence, he (or she) implicitly claims the ability to consistently outwit Osama bin-Laden, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin. European Union
- So I was writing an email about comparing Mormonism and traditional Christianity and I wrote “moronism” instead. Moronism « Christopher Colaninno
- He extrapolated a new religion or philosophy called monism from evolutionary science. SMART Grant Update - The Panda's Thumb
- Did Hitler represent, as Emil Fackenheim has said, a unique "eruption of demonism into history" -- in which case he stands at a comfortable remove from the rest of us? Gabriel Rotello: Will Smith, Hitler and the Holocaust's Unanswerable Question
- 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’.
- He had, after all, made the world a slightly better place as a result, and eudemonism was the creed to live by. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- He was a Spencerian like you till Kreis turned him to materialistic monism. Chapter 36
- He states, ‘Whereas Marxism called for the power of capital to be destroyed, eudemonism [the politics of happiness] calls for it to be ignored.’
- Monism thus generated a respect for life as a whole and helped to emphasize the unity of Nature.
- His philosophy of monism claimed that the many things which appear to exist are merely a single eternal reality which he called Being.