Monism

My pocket is disconnected with Mr. Morgan's bank account, and King Edward VII's mind is disconnected from this book.

Monism must mean that all such apparent disconnections are bridged over by some deeper absolute union in which it believes.

and this union must in some way be more real than the practical separations that appear upon the surface.

In point of historical fact, monism has generally kept itself vague and mystical as regards the ultimate principle of unity.

Only then might we believe that all things really do belong together, instead of being connected by the bare conjunctions with or and.

The notion that this latter pluralistic arrangement may obtain is deemed irrational, and of course it does make the world partly illogical or non-rational from a purely intellectual point of view.

Monism thus holds the oneness to be the more vital and essential element.

The entire cosmos must be of a consolidated unit within which each member is determined by the whole to be just that, and from which the slightest incipiency of independence anywhere is ruled out.

This is gonna be a big part of our thinking today.

Another example of avoiding extremes is avoiding a close approximation to monotheistic thinking, which is called monism.

Monism are theories that try to organize the world around a single theme.

Often, it integrates scientific thinking with social theory.

In fact, there's a journal, a very famous and reputable journal called The Monist, and it's had some very prestigious philosophers on its pages, and yet it- This school of thought, especially the German school of thought of the Monists, is responsible for some of the worst abuses of scientific thinking that are applied to terrible racial ideas, and the school of eugenics and social Darwinism that imported wholesale the idea of Darwinism and survival of the fittest and said that's exactly how human society is supposed to work.

There are people that are the predators that are- ought to be at the top, and they ought to cull the herd and exclude all sorts of poor genetics from the gene pool.

We Jews know very well where that kind of thinking led, and it really came out of the school of Monism.

And to be fair, not all Monists think that way.

Complementary holist concepts propel, justify, and inform a strategic approach of the fourth type.

Monist alternatives promote alliances of types one and two and occasionally allow alliances of type three.

The complementary holist humanist strategist must not only develop strategies relevant to each sphere, but also an understanding of how these partial strategies interrelate.

We have already suggested that within each sphere there will be autonomous movements, coalitions, specific forms of organization, specific demands, diverse tactical options, complex programs, and strategic agendas.

Science is discovering the laws of the machine.

Monism, today, God neither created nor controlled, the world created and controlled itself.

Now, just to give you a little light relief after that and to repeat something I've repeated before now, let's go back to that little poem I once quoted.

Do you remember it? There is no God, the speaker cries, don't let your thoughts be chained.