The world's last aversive experience will be a precisely dateable event. A brand of monism , first forwarded by Berkeley, in which everything is mental, as contrast to materialism . See also phenomenalism . In the debate between Construtivism and Instructivism. The Marxist-Leninist Theory of History Texts online Materialism Philosophical Materialism, essay by Richard C. Vitzthum.
Materialism is the oldest philosophical tradition in Western civilization.
Epicurus argued that ultimate reality consisted of invisible and indivisible bits of free-falling matter called atoms randomly colliding in the void. It was on this atomic hypothesis that the Roman poet Lucretius wrote the first masterpiece of materialist literature around 50 BCE, the 7400-line philosophical poem De Rerum Natura , or, as it's usually translated, The Nature of Things . The thesis that all of reality is of one kind. In philosophy of mind, monism is usually contrasted with the dualist position that mind and matter are deeply different. Thus, monism is the claim that mind and matter essentially the same.