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What does monism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.
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His philosophy of monism claimed that the many things which appear to exist are merely a single eternal reality which he called Being.
Theism might always be about meaning, but what religion would look like if monism were asserted against theism is an open question.
Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death.
A truly monistic view is Spinoza's monism, which holds that there is only one substance, which can be called God or Nature.
A detailed discussion of monism and dualism is outwith the scope of this text.
Instead they have refused assimilation and present themselves as the monistic alternative to the monism of Western modernity.

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