In order to present a reality, one needs to presents through the concept of monism, dualism, physicalism and idealism. Monism is the independent existent of a single reality. It can be either mental or physical by nature. The fundamental existent of mental by nature is idealism, which is opposed to dualism, of mind and matter in reality. On the other hand, physicalism is the independent reduction to materiality. Among the earliest western philosophers Parmenides and Spinoza each believed that there
as certain truths and are critical to understanding God-Nature (substance). I will here provide an account of Spinoza’s substance monism and attribute pluralism, along with strengths and weaknesses in his arguments for this picture of reality. This essay will argue that Spinoza’s claims are successfully supported in a manner that effectively utilizes
as certain truths and are critical to understanding God-Nature (substance). I will here provide an account of Spinoza’s substance monism and attribute pluralism, along with strengths and weaknesses in his arguments for this picture of reality. This essay will argue that Spinoza’s claims are successfully supported in a manner that effectively utilizes
from the social and crawl towards the personal. Frost’ once said that the world of his poetry, as the world of nature, is not circular with one centre i.e. good, but it is an oval with two centres – good and evil. It is an overthrow of monism in favour of dualism, a more complex relation between the two forces. If we discard the moral paradigm of good and evil and analyze North of Boston in the light of social and cultural paradigm, we will find as many centres as there are representative voices
The paper attempts an investigation into the epistemological anarchism of Paul Feyerband as contained in his magnum opus Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, 1975, and uses it in the contemporary discussion and justification of African epistemology. The paper argues that African epistemology differs from Western epistemology, in that the latter places emphasis on science in knowledge acquisition. The paper therefore concludes that although African epistemology reckons with