The Monist

The Monist

Author: Paul Carus

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.


Monism

Monism

Author: T. Weir

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781349295487

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The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.


Spinoza on Monism

Spinoza on Monism

Author: P. Goff

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780230279483

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Spinoza believed that there was only one substance in reality, which he called 'God or nature'. A number of leading contemporary philosophers have defended monism, this strange and beautiful idea that the cosmos is the source of all being. This book explores both the historical roots of the monism in Spinoza, and its flowering in the 21st century.


The Development of the Monist View of History

The Development of the Monist View of History

Author: Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781410203229

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The "father of Russian Marxism", George Plekhanov (1857-1918) directed most of his writings against the Russian "populist" movement to which he once belonged. He insisted that although, in principle, in semi-feudal societies such as the Russian, the first revolution would of necessity have to be a "capitalist" one. However, he noted that bourgeoisie was too weak to bring it about and thus it fell upon the proletariat to conduct "both" revolutions. However, he condemned the methods of Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon after 1917. In books such as Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883), Our Differences (1884) and On the Development of the Monist View of History (1895), Plekhanov argued that a successful Marxist revolution could only take place after the development of capitalism. According to Plekhanov, it was the industrial proletariat who would bring about a socialist revolution. Plekhanov was strongly opposed to the political views of people who argued that it would be possible for a small group of dedicated revolutionaries to seize power from the Tsar. Plekhanov warned that if this happened, you would replace one authoritarian regime with another and that a "socialist caste" would take control who would impose a system of "patriarchal authoritarian communism.


Empiriomonism

Empiriomonism

Author: Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-13

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9004300325

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Empiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov’s scientific-philosophical substantiation of Marxism. In Books One and Two, he combines Ernst Mach’s and Richard Avenarius’s neutral monist philosophy with the theory of psychophysical parallelism and systematically demonstrates that human psyches are thoroughly natural and are subject to nature’s laws. In Book Three, Bogdanov argues that empiriomonism is superior to G. V. Plekhanov’s outdated materialism and shows how the principles of empiriomonism solve the basic problem of historical materialism: how a society’s material base causally determines its ways of thinking. Bogdanov concludes that empiriomonism is of the same order as materialist systems, and, since it is the ideology of the productive forces of society, it is a Marxist philosophy.


Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

Author: Philip Goff

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190677015

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The first half of this book argues that physicalism cannot account for consciousness, and hence cannot be true. The second half explores and defends Russellian monism, a radical alternative to both physicalism and dualism. The view that emerges combines panpsychism with the view that the universe as a whole is fundamental.


Ethical Intuitionism

Ethical Intuitionism

Author: M. Huemer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-12-14

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 023059705X

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A defence of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths; (ii) we know these through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or 'intuition'; and (iii) knowing them gives us reasons to act independent of our desires. The author rebuts the major objections to this theory and shows the difficulties in alternative theories of ethics.