Sentences with phrase «avoids dualism»

At the same time, one avoids the dualism that is so unfashionable at present: the mind / soul is not held to be a separate, inserted entity, but a phenomenon that emerges naturally from the brain / body.

Throughout this book we shall follow Whitehead's admonition to avoid the dualism that puts nature in one arena and subjective experience in another.

If we are to avoid dualism — and that is also my desire (Here as elsewhere, I follow Whitehead.

Peter van Inwagen, who has become a Christian, is also motivated by the overriding desire to avoid dualism but only considers two alternative views of human beings: physicalism and dualism.

They too sought to avoid dualism; they too appreciated difference.

Not exact matches

For example, praising God by naming both an attribute and action of God would avoid the mistaken dualism that sometime creeps into Christian piety and prayer when divine actions and attributes are separated.

Avoiding the extremes of both a materialistic monism and a mind - body dualism, Ashbrook and Albright advocate an emergent holism that recognizes that the brain has a «bottom up» influence on the mind, but also that the mind has a «top - down» influence on the brain.

The existence of the human «stream of consciousness» to which these belong is not denied, as it is by those monistic behaviorisms and materialisms which attempt to avoid Cartesian dualism while still not questioning Cartesian metaphysical analyses of «matter» and «mind.»

When authors leave out the soul in order to avoid what they see as an arbitrary dualism, they often run into difficulties as great as those they seek to overcome.

[9] As the mind is not a power of the soul in Kenny, he finishes up in the very dualism he sets out to avoid, for the mind is as isolated in Kenny as it is in Descartes.

Whitehead's doctrine of pluralism avoids the pitfalls of dualism, where an acute disjunction between interiority and exteriority is made.

His strategy, which he refers to as a «recurrence» to this phase of philosophic thought, is to back up to the point where he is sitting there cheek to jowl with Descartes, and then to start all over again, this time avoiding the hopeless dualism which has kept Descartes, and the whole tradition which constitutes the phase of thought in question, from completing the Copernican Revolution.

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

Hence, the insoluble problem of all dualisms, understanding how two totally different kinds of actualities can causally interact, is avoided.

In attempting to avoid a metaphysical dualism by showing how a man is an integral child of nature, it vitiates man's understanding of himself.

In the question time he clarified that his main desire was to avoid Cartesian dualism, not the Catholic doctrine of the spiritual soul.