Materialism, Mind and Nature

Throughout fib philosophers tolerate pondered the constitution of humanity, resulting in two major camps- monism and dualism. Monism put forwards that the nature of reality is a mirror image of one thing, most notably, matter. Dualism on the otherwise hand states that term there is a someoneal world there is another(prenominal) piece to the puzzle; unremarkably this is a Mind consort from reality. This paper will fill-in the dualist s bottomlandpoint of reality opus also providing a rebutter to the arguments of the other camp.\nMaterialism is a rather popular system of the nature of reality; a monist look onpoint that the average person unknowingly believes. Now, this, perhaps, is not because of the rigour of much(prenominal) a view; but rather because it is natural, in lieu of any circumstance of these big questions, to conclude that everything that is, is on the whole there is. In other words everything is physical, composed of matter, and can be reduced to phy sics, biology, or chemistry. That is not to consecrate that the lonesome(prenominal) materialists are uninformed individuals, of conformation that is not the case. Many striking thinkers throughout history have supported a materialist view of reality. Thales of Miletus, the first philosopher of ancient Greece, was a materialist who believed that all of reality could be reduced to one thing-water. Of hunt down we now know that is not the case, but that is not to say that materialism is an outdated theory, sixteenth century philosopher and author of the notable treatise, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes believed all of reality was composed of matter. Hobbes even went so far as to state that there is no such thing as lax will, that human nature is a attainment rather than a tendency and can be studied just as any other science. If we were to charter enough about this science we could calculate the future establish on an exhaustive companionship of the present.\nEvidently there must be some likely basis for such a theory, for if there were not materialism would not of survived the test of time. If...