Monism

The five senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch are faculties that allow us to perceive the outside world. While everyone is not gifted with all five senses, they do grant us the ability to interaction with our surroundings when they are stimulated. In the Meditations, Descartes examine sensory perception and the role in plays in our lives. He questions how powerful but at the same time insufficient sensory perception is to the overall aspect of the mind. Descartes wants to examine…

In the very words of Hobbes, in his work the Leviathan, man in the state of nature are equal and their desires alters there destiny in life. Hobbes saw that men are equal being, and what triggers them to be in conflict is there desires which happens to be the same. According to him, men, in the same desires will try to race to achieve that desires and war of all against all occurs. Many century had passed and the war of all against all has happened. It devastated and traumatized the humankind.…

Each person has his or her way of perceiving things depending on several factors including the culture in which a person is brought up and the type of education that an individual receives in the course of life. The combination of all the perceptions a person develops in life creates his or her view of the world and amounts to what reality is. Those perceptions can change over time. Therefore, the way of understanding reality is not static for everyone. In-depth interviews with many people will…

of true beliefs, as he desires. Without criticizing and discussing beliefs James’s idea of maximizing true beliefs is not accomplished. William James was a radical empiricist (James, Preface). He says “‘radical’ because it treats the doctrine of monism itself as a hypothesis, and, unlike so much of the half-way empiricism that is current” (James, Preface). James believed that there are multiple true experiences of a singular reality. He believes there is no firm single truth that can explain…

We have always been trying to understand the universe and the concepts that dominate our daily life. This thirst for knowledge resulted in the development of such things as science, philosophy, and religion. Western philosophy started in Greece and spread further to America and Australia. The word philosophy comes from the Greek word philosophia which means “love of wisdom.” philosophy has many different fields, domains, and branches: Aesthetics, Epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,…

1.0 Introduction The quality of physical education (PE) programs in primary schools over the past two decades has been examined in the literature because of the difficulties classroom teachers experience when teaching PE. This Literature Review will look at the effectiveness of Physical Literacy (PL) and subsequently its relationship with the Long-Term Athlete Development model (LTAD). Since sedentary behaviour has been identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality,…

INTRO: The theory of materialism is a branch of monism that proposes the world is made up solely of materialistic objects. Socrates spoke of this theory and referred to it as the Mind-Body Problem, the question of whether the conscious mind and physical body coexist, or exist individually. Because materialism is a monistic theory, the mind and body are not able to coexist; therefore, we are forced to decide which one truly exists. THESIS: While the Mind-Body Problem is a theory with many…

Armstrong’s theory that the mind is the inner cause of a certain behaviour and his idea that it is associated with a physicalist view of human beings, is a complex idea that is also the result of a complex philosophical ‘problem’, one that philosophers from millennia ago tried to solve but it can be said that it is still not solved yet. It is known as the body mind problem and the term physicalism, is by itself an approach to how this problem has been interpreted by different philosophers. The…

Attacking the Status Quo Descartes’ Dualism and Material Realism Since Rene Descartes alienated reality into two separate realms, of mind and matter, many philosophers have endeavored to rationalize the capacity of human consciousness within Cartesian dualism. Science, or more precisely quantum physics, have introduced persuasive reasons to be skeptical of a dualistic philosophy as being conceivable. In order for the realms of mind and matter to interact, physics claims that an exchange of…

This brings us into Parmenides, where the main plot revolves around a dialectic attempting to grapple with the theory of forms. Continuing, the main argument is against monism in the sense that out of everything things can be alike or they can be unlike, but they cannot be both as that leads to absurdity (Rickless). Socrates however, wants to debate that premise and wants to use Plato’s theory of forms to tackle it. Socrates…