Monism

However, it is not effective with every mental illness. This qualifies it to be a model drift. For example, a study that included four randomized trials and 528 patients compared psychoanalysis or psychodynamic therapy, medication, and other types of therapy in their treatment of schizophrenia (Malmberg, Fenton, &Rathbone, 2001). Malmberg found that patients in psychodynamic therapy tended to remain unqualified to be discharged compared to a group that only received medication. Moreover, he did…

acknowledging the congruity between the mind and body. The extreme positions described by Adler are monism and dualism. The monistic theory stems from the idea that matter and matter alone exists- “that the world consists of nothing but bodies and their motions.” Therefore, there is no-non-material mind; rather the mind is strictly a synonym for the brain. Alder further explains that in monism, “There is nothing to talk or think about except the brain, its activities, its states, and its…

Are mind and body essentially different? [Descartes, Conway, Cavendish] In 17th century philosophy, the mind-body issue surfaced many circulating viewpoints as to what the real relationship between the mind and the physical world is. This continuing dilemma brings up questions that have ongoing answers regarding if the mind and body are two substances or not, and how exactly the mind and body are related to each other. I am choosing to take a monist standpoint in this paper, expressing that…

determined, Spinoza argues that it is determined but there is a freedom of will in the doctrine of the conatus. This view rests on three metaphysical positions that Spinoza advocates for, namely immanent necessitarianism, reductive naturalism and monism. All that exists and has is and will happen is immanent and inevitably going to happen. This he argues is because nature is constructed by a free uncaused cause (that which has no external constraint). This uncaused cause started the causal chain…

According to Monism, which Hinduism classifies as, only God exists; nothing else exists. Everything exists in a constant dream state, more specifically in Brahma’s dream which can also be seen in the metaphysical world of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Brahman is the self…

Have you ever thought about how the government came to an agreement with the church? Does the fight for power between the two still exist in Europe today? Where did a balance between the church and state derive? The medieval period also known as the Middle Ages began in Europe and lasted from the fifth until the fifteenth century. There were so many uprisings and falls in this society such as, the Crusades, the Renaissance, and countless wars. The most intriguing part of the period is it shaped…

Utilitarianism, however in this paper I will be discussing non-monistic ideals. Ethical pluralism is a group of theories rather than a single postulate. All theories that fall under “ethical pluralism” have a few things in common: all reject both monism & absolutism and they acknowledge the possibility of at least two fundamental moral rules. It is important to discuss…

and energy for its communication. The mind-body problem tries to explain the relationship between mental processes and the likes of beliefs, actions, and thinking. The approaches to this problem is usually catorized in two categories, Dualism and Monism. Each of these categories contain numerous variants. The two main forms of dualism are substance dualism, which holds that the mind is formed of a distinct type of substance not governed by the laws of physics,…

Mythology on paper acted as a catalyst to a new way of thinking about the natural world, very differently to the way that Hesiod, writer of “The Theogony” a book of Greek myth with no sense of justification, thought. It affected the minds of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes to question nature, have an urge to find an explanation of life through “phusis” (402), or nature itself, and put forth a singular material that makes up the world. While Thales was the first and was able to give some form…

Another powerful line of feminist argument against sexist language is found in Robin Lakoff’s polemical work Language and Women’s Place: Text and Commentaries (1975) where she submits her theory on gender discrimination in relation to language; she is one of the first linguists to speculate about the differences in men and women’s use of language, she surveys the relationship between language, gender, and power arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequalities, and it could give a…