Sentences with phrase «basic dualism»

The character of ancient thought entailed that the basic dualism of man's existence should express itself in mythology, and this, in turn, in cult.

Precisely because everything, from lowest to highest, shares the characteristic of being an actual entity, Whitehead overcomes the «basic dualism of man and nature.»

A common feature of them both is their basic dualism, according to which the present world and its human inhabitants are under the control of demonic, satanic powers, and stand in need of redemption.

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In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

The basic traditional metaphysical dualism of universal form and individual remained, but the ontological primacy was just flipped from formality to «material» individuality.

This hard dualism appeals to few scientists; so we need not be surprised that there is a tendency to insist that the additional psychical concepts are mere complications, or mere «emergent properties,» which should not influence our basic conception of reality or knowledge.

The basic problem with Gnostic dualism is that it severs people and issues into two.

While this attempt at emancipation through negation may not lead far with respect to the body - social, I will try it here in describing the three research programs in terms of the «No» each of them says to one of the basic strands of the reductionism syndrome: to the dualism that spawned it, to the «nothing - but» of its monism, and to the fragmenting sort of mathematical conceptualization it one - sidedly encourages.