Category: Religion and Metaphysics

But though the composition or structure of matter is thus too obscure a problem to serve as a support for…

Materialism offers us a philosophy, an explanation of the real world. It aims at showing the underlying unity of things…

Materialism has been for many centuries, if not the most popular of all philosophies, at least among the most popular.…

There is still a third difficulty in connexion with the dualistic theory; namely, the question how matter and mind are…

Nor can we entirely pass over the difficulty of the relations between mind and matter, even though we have been…

But a theory which has not solved all its difficulties—even one which has not solved the most elementary and conspicuous…

Of these three alternatives we shall begin by examining the most popular; that is to say, the dualism which regards…

Popular metaphysic distinguishes two categories of reality, mind and matter. Mind is a reality whose qualities are thought, will, and…

And it is doubtless true that there is a distinction between believing a thing because one is told it by…

But there is another charge often brought against these proofs, which relates less to their positive value than to the…