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Dialectical monism has been mentioned in Western literature, although infrequently."It is dualist because it is monist. Marx’s ontological monism consisted in affirming the irreducibility of Being to thought, and, at the same time, in reintegrating thoughts with the real as a particular form of human activity." —Jean-Paul Sartre, ''In Sartre's seminal work, the ''Critique of Dialectical Reason'', it is shown how the essential dualism of Marx corresponds to a heightened synthesis, referring to totality, which is the monism that grounds the theses and antitheses of Marxism. In its article onCritique of Dialectical Reason ''Critique of Dialectical Reason'' () is a 1960 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author further develops the existentialist Marxism he first expounded in his essay '' Search for a Method'' (1957). ''Critique of Dialectical R ...'', Vol. 1. Theory of Practical Ensembles
Although essentially processive and devoid of any permanent order, the ceaseless becoming of the cosmos is nevertheless characterized by an overarching balance, rhythm, and regularity: one provided by and constituted by ''teotl''... Dialectical polar monism holds that: (1) the cosmos and its contents are substantively and formally identical with ''teotl''; and (2) ''teotl'' presents itself primarily as the ceaseless, cyclical oscillation of polar yet complementary opposites.
''Teotl's'' process presents itself in multiple aspects, preeminent among which is duality. This duality takes the form of the endless opposition of contrary yet mutually interdependent and mutually complementary polarities that divide, alternately dominate, and explain the diversity, movement, and momentary arrangement of the universe. These include: being and not-being, order and disorder, life and death, light and darkness, masculine and feminine, dry and wet, hot and cold, and active and passive. Life and death, for example, are mutually arising, interdependent, and complementary aspects of one and the same process.
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* Dialectic Monism Metaphysics of religion Jean-Paul Sartre {{reli-metaphysics-stub