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Materialism and Physicalism

Materialism and Physicalism

The heyday of materialism was the 19th century, when it seemed to be clear that in time the universe and everything in it would be explained by one thing, the material. Materialism was the world view that the only truly existing entity was matter. All other things (particularly thinking) could be [...]

December 20th, 2007 | therationalgod | 1 comment | Continued
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Materialism Philosophy

Materialism Philosophy

Materialism philosophy comes in too different brands. There is metaphysical materialism which is concerned with the nature of things that exist. There is also political materialism which is concerned with human behaviour and social organisation. This article is concerned only with the former type of philosophical materialism.
In recent decades there has been [...]

December 16th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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Materialism and Monism

Materialism and Monism

From a purely rational perspective it seems that we are forced to accept that there is only one thing that exists in the universe. What it is we should consider that thing to be is a very difficult problem to present a conclusion to. Materialism and monism are presented together as the [...]

December 13th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Materialism Definition

Materialism Definition

The modern scientific notion of materialism was founded in the ideas of Descartes in the early years of the seventeenth century. Any discussion of philosophical materialism usually has Descartes materialism definition in mind. To recap, Descartes was distinguishing between two types of things which he assumed exists; mind and matter. Descartes concept of [...]

December 13th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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A Definition of Monism

A Definition of Monism
Metaphysical monism is an ancient problem which still continues to this day, at least for some. A definition of monism can be framed quite succinctly; monism states that there is just one kind of thing that exists in the universe, everything is thus reducible to this one thing.
The earliest form of this [...]

December 8th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued