[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

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[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Materialistic agnostic monistic atheistic logically positivistic naturalism ping!

[metmom]

That’s a whole lot of words to say nothing.

[metmom]

Ethics are what people without morals have.

[little jeremiah]

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[ChessExpert]

“Materialistic agnostic monistic atheistic logically positivistic naturalism ping!”

The article seems to fill the bill. It certainly suggest that everything can, in principle, be explained in “physico-chemical terms,” with a bunch of references to “instinct” thrown in for good measure.

Clearly the author has an objective or agenda. Why, he does not say. If asked, he might say it is the only approach that makes sense. But anyone can say that their opinion is the only one that makes sense.

In the same way that a good lie has elements of the truth, his claims do have occasional support, and his logic may occasionally follow. His text just doesn't work for me. I agree with MetMom’s post 3

I went to my browser and typed in monism. Monism emphasizes oneness, but it seems that there have been many types of monism. A few excerpts follow.

Answers.com
Monism finds one where dualism finds two. Physicalism is the doctrine that everything that exists is physical, and is a monism contrasted with mind-body dualism.
http://www.answers.com/topic/monism

Wikipedia.com
Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the Universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or theology may support the view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different religions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism

Catholic Encylopedia
Among the early Greek philosophers, the Eleatics, starting, like the Hindus, with the conviction that sense-knowledge is untrustworthy, and reason alone reliable, reached the conclusion that change, plurality, and origination do not really exist, that Being is one, immutable, and eternal. They did not explicitly identify the one reality with God, and were not, so far as we know, inclined to mysticism. Their Monism, therefore, may be said to be of the purely idealistic type.

These two forms of metaphysical Monism recur frequently in the history of philosophy; for instance, the idealistic-spiritual type in neo-Platonism and in Spinoza's metaphysics, and the purely idealistic type in the rational absolutism of Hegel.

Besides idealistic Monism there is Monism of the materialistic type, which proclaims that there is but one reality, namely, matter, whether matter be an agglomerate of atoms, a primitive, world-forming substance (see IONIAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY), or the so-called cosmic nebula out of which the world evolved.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10483a.htm

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