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Philosophical theory first advanced by Leucippus and Democritus
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Atomism or social atomism is a sociological theory arising from the scientific notion atomic theory , coined by the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus and the Roman philosopher Lucretius . In the scientific rendering of the word, atomism refers to the ...
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Atomism \At"om*ism\, n. [Cf. F. atomisme.] The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy , under Atomic .
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n. (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; ...
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n. 1 (context philosophy English) The ancient Greek theory that all matter is composed of very small indestructible and indivisible particles. 2 (context philosophy English) The doctrine that society arises from individuals and that larger structures are ...
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Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.
In its last stages it produces social atomism, in which not only the authority of the State is combated, but even the authority of society and the family.
Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.
They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.
In the sphere of Society, opposing the chaos of atomism, feminism, disintegration of home and family, race-suicide, and universal decadence, arose the idea of race-ascendancy, fertility, the preservation and integration of society, the return to social health.
THE EGO AND THE Eco We earlier noted the altogether extraordinary paradox of the Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.
It thinks that the enemy is atomism, and that the central problem is simply to be able to prove or demonstrate once and for all that the universe is a great and unified holistic System or Order or Web.
Therefore if we place ourselves in a perspective of intuition, I mean, of complete perception, the demand for reason appears second only, without being deprived, however, of its true task: it is an echo and a recollection, an appeal and a promise of profound continuity, our original anticipation and our final hope, in the bosom of the elementary atomism which characterises the transitory region of language.
Just as in the case of atomism, they seemed to prove the validity of the preconceived idea of the current.