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  • Monistic theories carry strong implications about what is of value.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • Monistic religions manage to escape this kind of silliness; absolutists have got to find a way to be fair to people regardless of faith while at the same time not abandoning what they believe to be true.

    the perfect religion! « raincoaster 2007

  • Monistic faiths such as Hinduism or Buddhism approach insight differently.

    Multi-Cultural Growth Christine Robinson 2007

  • Monistische Sonntagspredigten (Monistic Sunday sermons) and Arbeiten zum Monismus (Works on monism).

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Biography 1966

  • He fears the destruction of the Monistic faith, if he admits that man is in essence a god, and that therefore there are many gods in the one God, even as there are many members to the one physical organism.

    Cosmic Consciousness

  • Hist. of Creat. "with the following words:" Future centuries will celebrate our age, which was occupied with laying the foundations of the Doctrine of Descent, as the new era in which began a period of human development, rich in blessings, -- a period which was characterized by the victory of free inquiry over the despotism of authority, and by the powerful ennobling influence of the Monistic

    The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

  • * In the article on "The Monistic Theory of Truth" in

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • Opposed to this is the Monistic view, that God is indeed the cause of all that is good in the universe, and that evil is not to be assigned to any supreme cause distinct from God.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Nevertheless, the untrained student of philosophy will be likely to be more profoundly influenced by the Monistic criticism of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Monistic Idealism, which would identify the laws of physical phenomena with the laws of logical thought and reduce all reality to one system of intellectually necessary thought-relations, is no less unsatisfactory, for it confounds the phenomena of existing, contingent being with the metaphysical relations between abstract, possible essences -- relations which have their ultimate basis only in the nature of the Necessary Being, God Himself.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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