Unity and diversity
Monism is the idea that “All is One.” Dualism is the idea that the world consists of clearly separate objects. These ideas may seem abstract, and irrelevant to your life. However, they are central to...
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Two countercultures: monist and dualist
Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right“The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics,...
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The Big Three stance combinations
Complex ideologies are based on collections of simple stances: fundamental attitudes toward meaningness. Some stances (addressing different dimensions of meaningness) work together well; others clash....
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Monism and dualism contain each other
Pathological counter-dependencyMonism and dualism are opposites. But because each is obviously wrong, each turns into the other when cornered. A devious trick!Monism is the stance that fixates sameness...
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Boundaries, objects, and connections
Monism is the idea that “All is One”; dualism, that the world consists of clearly separate objects. To start, we need an understanding of what it means to be one thing, or a separate thing, in general....
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Completing the countercultures
Galleon courtesy George OwensThe countercultures of the 1960s-80s took attitudes to boundaries as their central themes. The monist counterculture—the 1960s youth movement—wanted to eliminate all...
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