Haeckel's monism
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Haeckel's monism is a 19th-century philosophical doctrine that posits a unified, purely naturalistic basis for both mind and matter, rejecting any dualistic separation between the spiritual and the material.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Haeckel's monism Context triple: [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, relatedTo, Haeckel's monism]
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Bergsonianism
Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
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Generelle Morphologie der Organismen
Generelle Morphologie der Organismen is Ernst Haeckel’s foundational 1866 work that helped establish evolutionary morphology and popularized concepts such as the biogenetic law in biology.
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Philosophie zoologique
Philosophie zoologique is an 1809 work by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck that systematically presents his early evolutionary theory, including the inheritance of acquired characteristics and the idea of species transformation over time.
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Naturphilosophie
Naturphilosophie is a strand of German Idealist philosophy that seeks to understand nature as an organic, dynamic whole governed by underlying metaphysical principles.
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Holism and Evolution
"Holism and Evolution" is a 1926 philosophical work by Jan Smuts that introduced and developed the concept of holism, arguing that wholes are more than the sum of their parts in both nature and evolution.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Haeckel's monism Target entity description: Haeckel's monism is a 19th-century philosophical doctrine that posits a unified, purely naturalistic basis for both mind and matter, rejecting any dualistic separation between the spiritual and the material.
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A.
Bergsonianism
Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
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B.
Generelle Morphologie der Organismen
Generelle Morphologie der Organismen is Ernst Haeckel’s foundational 1866 work that helped establish evolutionary morphology and popularized concepts such as the biogenetic law in biology.
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C.
Philosophie zoologique
Philosophie zoologique is an 1809 work by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck that systematically presents his early evolutionary theory, including the inheritance of acquired characteristics and the idea of species transformation over time.
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D.
Naturphilosophie
Naturphilosophie is a strand of German Idealist philosophy that seeks to understand nature as an organic, dynamic whole governed by underlying metaphysical principles.
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E.
Holism and Evolution
"Holism and Evolution" is a 1926 philosophical work by Jan Smuts that introduced and developed the concept of holism, arguing that wholes are more than the sum of their parts in both nature and evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
19th-century philosophy
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monism ⓘ naturalistic monism ⓘ philosophical doctrine ⓘ |
| aimsToUnify |
biology and philosophy
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ethics and natural science ⓘ natural sciences and worldview ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Monist League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
all phenomena are governed by natural laws
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mental phenomena are products of physical processes ⓘ mind and matter share the same underlying nature ⓘ reality is fundamentally unified ⓘ there is no ontological dualism between spirit and matter ⓘ |
| cosmologicalView | the universe is a single interconnected whole ⓘ |
| criticizedBy |
neo-Kantian philosophers
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theologians ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
hostility to traditional religion
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overextending scientific claims into metaphysics ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Die Lebenswunder
NERFINISHED
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Die Welträthsel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedIn | late 19th century ⓘ |
| developedInPlace | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethicalImplication | seeks a scientifically grounded ethics ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Haeckelian monism
NERFINISHED
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scientific monism ⓘ |
| hasMethodologicalBasis |
biology
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empirical science ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalTradition |
materialism
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naturalism ⓘ scientism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
19th-century scientific materialism
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Charles Darwin ⓘ German idealism NERFINISHED ⓘ evolutionary theory ⓘ |
| metaphysicalStance |
anti-dualist
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anti-supernaturalist ⓘ reductionist ⓘ |
| proposedBy | Ernst Haeckel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rejects |
mind–body dualism
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spiritual–material dualism ⓘ supernatural explanations ⓘ traditional Christian metaphysics ⓘ |
| viewOnGod | rejects a personal transcendent God ⓘ |
| viewOnMatter | matter and energy are the basic constituents of reality ⓘ |
| viewOnMind |
consciousness emerges from material processes
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mind is a function of the brain ⓘ |
| viewOnReligion |
advocates a religion of nature
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criticizes organized Christianity ⓘ |
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