Sentences with phrase «platonic dualism»
I want to go back behind Calvin, Dante, Augustine, and Platonic dualism to get to what the Bible actually says about such things.
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Indeed, to invoke the separation between religion and politics in order to uphold this sort of Platonic dualism is to suggest that human beings somehow belong to the powers that be, that is, they are at the mercy of political authorities who can do what they please with them without any fear of rebuke from God through the prophetic ministry of the Church.
The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.
Aristotelian logic and Platonic dualism do not exhaust the thought - structures of the human race.
In the second book of the De anima, in a remark that anticipates his claim in Book three that a part of the soul (the intellect) is separable and immortal, Aristotle appears to allude to the sort of Platonic dualism that he would reject.
Perhaps the negative attitude is due to the influence of Platonic dualism, the distinction between man's body and soul.
Young notes that much of Whitehead's metaphysics, like much of Christian theology, has imbibed platonic dualism.
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Cartesian dualism, sharply separating mind and body, had long been rejected by the twentieth century and with it the Platonic idea of a soul, or mind, that could exist independently and forever apart from a body.
Gilbert Ryles» famous critique of dualism, for example, is unsatisfactory since in the final analysis it differs little from the old - fashioned materialism of behaviorists like J.B. Watson, for whom distinct «inner» states of awareness do not exist.18 In general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness of «the Platonic - Cartesian way.