Sentences with phrase «cosmic dualism»
The concept of non-being is an unconscious hangover from a pagan cosmic dualism which owes more to Plato than to Aristotle and is alien to Thomas Aquinas.
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Earlier in the twentieth century, scholars attributed this to the influence of Hellenistic dualism, but now scholars accept a Jewish background to the concept of a cosmic struggle of good and evil.
Once dualism made it possible to siphon mentality out of the natural world, «matter» was left bereft of the perceptivity upon which alone cosmic purpose could be implanted.
Furthermore, materialism's epistemological dualism leaves open the door for the «existential» alienation of the subject from its cosmic context.
Scientific thought, under the impact of dualism, has simply assumed that mental occurrences are not part of the cosmic arena, that mentality and nature belong to completely different realms.
The so - called «transmuted eschatology» of the Fourth Gospel has to be viewed in connection with the rigorous cosmic eschatology which is one of the features of its rugged dualism.
A more philosophical way to vanquish the dualism of mind and nature is to see them both as aspects of a unified cosmic process in which all the components of becoming are «mental.»
It is an axiom of organismic cosmology that no one is an island; even in our estrangement from others and from the cosmos (as imagined perhaps along the lines of dualism and cosmic pessimism) we are still being influenced inevitably by the totality of which we are a part.
This kind of apocalyptic eschatology reinforced a radical cultural dualism and provided a cosmic urgency for the true believers to «come out from among them and be separate» (2 Corinthians 6:17).