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Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept, such as to existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:
- Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One.[1] In this view only the One is ontologically basic or prior to everything else.
- Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the universe, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things.[2]
- Substance monism asserts that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance.[3] Substance monism posits that only one kind of substance exists, although many things may be made up of this substance, e.g., matter or mind.
- Dual-aspect monism is the view that the mental and the physical are two aspects of, or perspectives on, the same substance.
- Neutral monism believes the fundamental nature of reality to be neither mental nor physical; in other words it is "neutral".
Definitions
There are two sorts of definitions for monism:
- The wide definition: a philosophy is monistic if it postulates unity of the origin of all things; all existing things return to a source that is distinct from them.[1]
- The restricted definition: this requires not only unity of origin but also unity of substance and essence.[1]
Although the term monism is derived from Western philosophy to typify positions in the mind–body problem, it has also been used to typify religious traditions. In modern Hinduism, the term "absolute monism" has been applied to Advaita Vedanta,[4][5] though Philip Renard points out that this may be a Western interpretation, bypassing the intuitive understanding of a nondual reality.[6] It is more generally categorized by scholars as a form of absolute nondualism.[7][8][9]
History
Monism has been discussed thoroughly in Indian philosophy and
The
and in earlier Asian and more specifically Indian traditions.It was later also applied to the theory of absolute identity set forth by
According to Jonathan Schaffer, monism lost popularity due to the emergence of analytic philosophy in the early twentieth century, which revolted against the neo-Hegelians. Rudolf Carnap and A. J. Ayer, who were strong proponents of positivism, "ridiculed the whole question as incoherent mysticism".[15]
The mind–body problem has reemerged in social psychology and related fields, with the interest in mind–body interaction[16] and the rejection of Cartesian mind–body dualism in the identity thesis, a modern form of monism.[17] Monism is also still relevant to the philosophy of mind,[14] where various positions are defended.[18][19]
Types
Different types of monism include:[14][20]
- Substance monism, "the view that the apparent plurality of substances is due to different states or appearances of a single substance"[14]
- Attributive monism, "the view that whatever the number of substances, they are of a single ultimate kind"[14]
- Epistemological monism, where "ultimately, everything that can be thought, observed and engaged, shares one conceptual system of interaction, however complex."[21]
- Partial monism, "within a given realm of being (however many there may be) there is only one substance"[14]
- Existence monism, "the view that there is only one concrete object token (The One, "Τὸ Ἕν" or the Monad)"[22]
- Priority monism, "the whole is prior to its parts" or "the world has parts, but the parts are dependent fragments of an integrated whole"[20]
- Property monism, "the view that all properties are of a single type (e.g., only physical properties exist)"
- Genus monism, "the doctrine that there is a highest category; e.g., being"[20]
Views contrasting with monism are:
- Metaphysical dualism, which asserts that there are two ultimately irreconcilable substances or realities such as Good and Evil, for example, Gnosticism and Manichaeism.[21][1]
- Metaphysical pluralism, which asserts three or more fundamental substances or realities.[1]
- Metaphysical nihilism, negates any of the above categories (substances, properties, concrete objects, etc.).
Monism in modern philosophy of mind can be divided into three broad categories:
- Material monism (also called Physicalism and materialism), which holds that the material world is primary, and consciousness arises through the interaction with the material world[24][23]
Certain positions do not fit easily into the above categories, such as functionalism, anomalous monism, and reflexive monism. Moreover, they do not define the meaning of "real".
Monistic philosophers
Pre-Socratic
While the lack of information makes it difficult in some cases to be sure of the details, the following pre-Socratic philosophers thought in monistic terms:[25]
- Thales: Water
- Anaximander: Apeiron (meaning 'the undefined infinite'). Reality is some, one thing, but we cannot know what.
- Anaximenes of Miletus: Air
- Heraclitus: Change, symbolized by fire (in that everything is in constant flux).
- Parmenides: Being or Reality is an unmoving perfect sphere, unchanging, undivided.[26]
Post-Socrates
- Neopythagorians such as Apollonius of Tyana centered their cosmologies on the Monad or One.
- Stoics taught that there is only one substance, identified as God.[27]
- Middle Platonism under such works as those by Numenius taught that the Universe emanates from the Monad or One.
- Neoplatonism is monistic. Plotinus taught that there was an ineffable transcendent god, 'The One,' of which subsequent realities were emanations. From The One emanates the Divine Mind (Nous), the Cosmic Soul (Psyche), and the World (Cosmos).
Modern
- Alexander Bogdanov
- F. H. Bradley
- Giordano Bruno[28][29]
- Gilles Deleuze
- Friedrich Engels
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Ernst Haeckel[30][31]
- David Bentley Hart
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Christopher Langan
- Giacomo Leopardi[32]
- Ernst Mach
- Karl Marx
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Gilbert Ryle
- Jonathan Schaffer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Hans Jonas[21]
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Rupert Sheldrake
- B.F. Skinner
- Herbert Spencer
- Baruch Spinoza
- Rudolf Steiner
- Alan Watts
- Alfred North Whitehead
Monistic neuroscientists
- György Buzsáki
- Francis Crick
- Karl Friston
- Eric Kandel
- Mark Solms
- Rodolfo Llinas
- Ivan Pavlov
- Roger Sperry
Religion
Pantheism
Pantheism is the belief that everything composes an all-encompassing,
Pantheism was popularized in the modern era as both a theology and philosophy based on the work of the 17th-century philosopher
H. P. Owen claimed that
Pantheists are "monists" ... they believe that there is only one Being, and that all other forms of reality are either modes (or appearances) of it or identical with it.[38]
Pantheism is closely related to monism, as pantheists too believe all of reality is one substance, called Universe, God or Nature.
Panentheism
Panentheism (from
In panentheism, there are two types of substance, "pan" the universe and God. The universe and the divine are not ontologically equivalent. God is viewed as the eternal animating force within the universe. In some forms of panentheism, the cosmos exists within God, who in turn "transcends", "pervades" or is "in" the cosmos.
While pantheism asserts that 'All is God', panentheism claims that God animates all of the universe, and also transcends the universe. In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God,
Paul Tillich has argued for such a concept within Christian theology, as has liberal biblical scholar Marcus Borg and mystical theologian Matthew Fox, an Episcopal priest.[note 2]
Pandeism
Pandeism or pan-deism (from
Through this synergy pandeism claims to answer primary objections to deism (why would God create and then not interact with the universe?) and to pantheism (how did the universe originate and what is its purpose?).
Indian religions
Characteristics
The central problem in Asian (religious) philosophy is not the body-mind problem, but the search for an unchanging Real or Absolute beyond the world of appearances and changing phenomena,
Characteristic for various Asian religions is the discernment of levels of truth,
Hinduism
Vedanta
Vedanta is the inquiry into and systematisation of the Vedas and Upanishads, to harmonise the various and contrasting ideas that can be found in those texts. Within Vedanta, different schools exist:[57]
- Vishishtadvaita, qualified monism, is from the school of Ramanuja;[58]
- Shuddhadvaita, in-essence monism, is the school of Vallabha;
- Nimbarka;
- Achintya Bheda Abheda, a school of Vedanta founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu representing the philosophy of inconceivable one-ness and difference. It can be understood as an integration of the strict dualist (dvaita) theology of Madhvacharya and the qualified monism (vishishtadvaita) of Ramanuja.
Modern Hinduism
The colonisation of India by the British had a major impact on Hindu society.[59] In response, leading Hindu intellectuals started to study western culture and philosophy, integrating several western notions into Hinduism.[59] This modernised Hinduism, at its turn, has gained popularity in the west.[51]
A major role was played in the 19th century by
[Y]oga is a meditative exercise of withdrawal from the particular and identification with the universal, leading to contemplation of oneself as the most universal, namely, Consciousness. This approach is different from the classical Yoga of complete thought suppression.[62]
Vivekananda, according to Gavin Flood, was "a figure of great importance in the development of a modern Hindu self-understanding and in formulating the West's view of Hinduism."[63] Central to his philosophy is the idea that the divine exists in all beings, that all human beings can achieve union with this "innate divinity",[64] and that seeing this divine as the essence of others will further love and social harmony.[64] According to Vivekananda, there is an essential unity to Hinduism, which underlies the diversity of its many forms.[64] According to Flood, Vivekananda's view of Hinduism is the most common among Hindus today.[65] This monism, according to Flood, is at the foundation of earlier Upanishads, to theosophy in the later Vedanta tradition and in modern Neo-Hinduism.[66]
Buddhism
According to the
Levels of truth
Within Buddhism, a rich variety of philosophical[68] and pedagogical models[69] can be found. Various schools of Buddhism discern levels of truth:
- The Two truths doctrine of the Madhyamaka
- The Yogacara
- Absolute-relativein Chinese and Korean Buddhism
- The Trikaya-formule, consisting of
- The Dharmakāya or Truth body which embodies the very principle of enlightenment and knows no limits or boundaries;
- The Sambhogakāyaor body of mutual enjoyment which is a body of bliss or clear light manifestation;
- The Nirmāṇakāya or created body which manifests in time and space.[70]
The
To deny the duality of samsara and nirvana, as the Perfection of Wisdom does, or to demonstrate logically the error of dichotomizing conceptualization, as Nagarjuna does, is not to address the question of the relationship between samsara and nirvana -or, in more philosophical terms, between phenomenal and ultimate reality [...] What, then, is the relationship between these two realms?[71]
This question is answered in such schemata as
Sikhism
Sikhism complies with the concept of Absolute Monism. Sikh philosophy advocates that all that our senses comprehend is an illusion; God is the ultimate reality. Forms being subject to time shall pass away. God's Reality alone is eternal and abiding.[74] The thought is that Atma (soul) is born from, and a reflection of, ParamAtma (Supreme Soul), and "will again merge into it", in the words of the fifth guru of Sikhs, Guru Arjan, "just as water merges back into the water."[75]
God and Soul are fundamentally the same; identical in the same way as Fire and its sparks. "Atam meh Ram, Ram meh Atam" which means "The Ultimate Eternal reality resides in the Soul and the Soul is contained in Him". As from one stream, millions of waves arise and yet the waves, made of water, again become water; in the same way all souls have sprung from the Universal Being and would blend again into it.[76]
Abrahamic faiths
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Judaism
Jewish thought considers God as separate from all physical, created things and as existing outside of time.[note 3][note 4]
According to
According to
- A very strong Jewish belief is that "[t]he Divine life-force which brings [the universe] into existence must constantly be present ... were this life-force to forsake [the universe] for even one brief moment, it would revert to a state of utter nothingness, as before the creation ..."[78]
- Simultaneously, Judaism holds as axiomatic that God is an absolute unity, and that he is perfectly simple, thus, if his sustaining power is within nature, then his essence is also within nature.[citation needed]
The Vilna Gaon was very much against this philosophy, for he felt that it would lead to pantheism and heresy. According to some this is the main reason for the Gaon's ban on Chasidism.[citation needed]
Christianity
Creator–creature distinction
Christians maintain that God created the universe
Rejection of radical dualism
In
Mormonism
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Parley Pratt implies a vitalism paired with evolutionary adaptation noting, "these eternal, self-existing elements possess in themselves certain inherent properties or attributes, in a greater or less degree; or, in other words, they possess intelligence, adapted to their several spheres."[83]
Parley Pratt's view is also similar to Gottfried Leibniz's monadology, which holds that "reality consists of mind atoms that are living centers of force."[84]
Brigham Young anticipates a proto-mentality of elementary particles with his vitalist view, "there is life in all matter, throughout the vast extent of all the eternities; it is in the rock, the sand, the dust, in water, air, the gases, and in short, in every description and organization of matter; whether it be solid, liquid, or gaseous, particle operating with particle."[85]
The LDS conception of matter is "essentially dynamic rather than static, if indeed it is not a kind of living energy, and that it is subject at least to the rule of intelligence."[86]
Islam
Quran
Vincent Cornell argues that the Quran provides a monist image of God by describing reality as a unified whole, with God being a single concept that would describe or ascribe all existing things.[88]
But most argue that Abrahamic religious scriptures, especially the Quran, see creation and God as two separate existences. It explains that everything has been created by God and is under his control, but at the same time distinguishes creation as being dependent on the existence of God.[88]
Sufism
Some Sufi mystics advocate monism. One of the most notable being the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi (1207–73) in his didactic poem Masnavi espoused monism.[89][90] Rumi says in the Masnavi,
In the shop for Unity (wahdat); anything that you see there except the One is an idol.[89]
Other Sufi mystics however, such as Ahmad Sirhindi, upheld dualistic Monotheism (the separation of God and the Universe).[91]
The most influential of the Islamic monists was the Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi (1165–1240). He developed the concept of 'unity of being' (Arabic: waḥdat al-wujūd), which some argue is a monistic philosophy.[citation needed] Born in al-Andalus, he made an enormous impact on the Muslim world, where he was crowned "the great Master". In the centuries following his death, his ideas became increasingly controversial. Ahmad Sirhindi criticised monistic understanding of 'unity of being', advocating the dualistic-compatible 'unity of witness' (Arabic: wahdat ash-shuhud), maintaining separation of creator and creation.[92][93][94][95] Later, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi reconciled the two ideas maintaining that their differences are semantic differences, arguing that the universal existence (which is different in creation to creator) and the divine essence are different and that the universal existence emanates (in a non-platonic sense) from the divine essence and that the relationship between them is similar to the relationship between the number four and a number being even.[96][97]
Shi'ism
The doctrine of waḥdat al-wujūd also enjoys considerable following in the rationalist philosophy of Twelver Shi'ism, with the most famous modern-day adherent being Ruhollah Khomeini.[98]
Baháʼí Faith
Although the teachings of the Baháʼí Faith have a strong emphasis on social and ethical issues, there exist a number of foundational texts that have been described as mystical.[99] Some of these include statements of a monist nature (e.g., The Seven Valleys and the Hidden Words). The differences between dualist and monist views are reconciled by the teaching that these opposing viewpoints are caused by differences in the observers themselves, not in that which is observed. This is not a 'higher truth/lower truth' position. God is unknowable. For man it is impossible to acquire any direct knowledge of God or the Absolute, because any knowledge that one has, is relative.[100]
See also
- Cosmic pluralism
- Dialectical monism
- Henosis
- Holism
- Indefinite monism
- Neoplatonism
- Material monism
- Monadology
- Monistic idealism
- Ontological pluralism
- Realistic monism
- Taoism
- Univocity of being
- Wuji
Notes
- Type-identity theory and Functionalism
- Creation Spirituality
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- Negative theology.
- ^ See the "Guide for the Perplexed", especially chapter I:50.
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- Catholic Encyclopedia - Monism
- Hinduism's Online Lexicon – (search for Monism)
- The Monist