Developmental Appropriateness vs. Academic Rigor: An Untenable
Dualism in Middle Level Education Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. and Leonard Waks
While there, he came across the writings of neuroscientist Christoph Koch and molecular biologist Francis Crick, who together seized on the long - elusive phenomenon of consciousness, challenging the Cartesian view of mind - body
dualism in compelling treatises published beginning in the 1990s.
A tendency toward
dualism in feelings, in mythic - symbolic consciousness and in philosophical reflection has always been present in Western culture (and perhaps other cultures also).
For a defense of the theses that Bergson, unlike James, was not primarily a psychologist, but was, rather, a speculative metaphysician and that he was in no sense a neo-Cartesian dualist who endorsed a split between durational consciousness and a nondurational material universe, see my: «Bergson's
Dualism in Time and Free Will,» P54: 83 - 106.
A physicist or chemist can get along fairly well with a commonsense
dualism in attempting to discover the laws of nature which govern the vast world of inanimate things.
Rejecting Cartesian
dualism in favor of what he calls «dual - aspect monism,» Polkinghorne opens biology to the existence of supra - physical consciousness or spirit; and he opens physics to a reality that transcends the world of the Big Bang and the evolution of conscious life.
Needless to say, the paradox between metaphysical monism and epistemological
dualism in much of modern science presents immense philosophical difficulties.
Yes, I strugged with how to explain this without falling into some sort of
dualism in Jesus or ourselves.
Where Descartes turned to the language of substance to explain certain philosophical problems, social theorists like Morton frequently establish a body / culture
dualism in its place.
Stapledon concretizes his criticism of the classical
dualism in most philosophies by employing a cosmology strikingly Whiteheadian in nature.
Among those who have genuinely overcome
dualism in their thinking about humanity and the rest of the world, I find two major groups.
Not exact matches
The same
dualism — the need for safety and excitement —
in the bedroom that she talks about
in her book and
in her TED talk has relevance for entrepreneurs looking to launch the next big company, the next great idea, the next billion - dollar startup.
I believe that we ARE created
in the image of unconditional love, but what Jesus calls αμαρτία (
dualism, separation, living outside the garden) blinds us from living fully into this reality.
He makes some surprising claims
in the chapter on human beings, arguing for a strong Cartesian
dualism of soul and body for humans, but claiming that dogs and cats have immaterial souls as well.
On the other hand, I was troubled by the
dualism involved
in his revelational positivism.
To «come out»
in my expereince is a long painful expereince where I have had to challenge the worldview,
dualism, partriachy and to essentially grow - up and learn a new spiritual language.
We arrive at a more attractive scientific generalization if we dismiss the apparent
dualism between perception of the sheer present and memory of the past, and adopt instead the view that only the past literally gets itself experienced
in its concrete actuality (MMCL 444)....
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.
In fact any form of «
dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.
And yet, the seeming gulf of this opposition helps explain much about the ways
in which the
dualism of «individualism» and «collectivism» came to be understood for much of the twentieth century.
to ihaftr, thats why we have to make a paradigm shift
in our concept of Who is God from
dualism, meaning He is separate from us to Holism, one with Him, This is very significant this shift for it will have a profound effect on the development of our concsience, Social responsibility and even altruism will be high virtue
in this level of consciousness.
Only my realisation
in that year that the whole human race was on a collision course with disaster shook me out of this
dualism and forced me to rethink my theology
in light of this most inclusive question of human destiny.
He took the passage
in Colossians about «all things» as his theme because he wanted to speak against the
dualism of the church and the world which piety always presumes.
Camus» adherence to this mind - matter
dualism, however, leaves his rebel's discovery of a «living transcendence» that guarantees limits
in nature and human behavior
in perilous intellectual limbo.
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.
In the organization of knowledge in general, dualism is dominan
In the organization of knowledge
in general, dualism is dominan
in general,
dualism is dominant.
First, Whitehead's system provides a comprehensive unity to overcome the subject - object
dualism that prohibits Camus from «defining» a value that is grounded
in nature.
I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted
in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla
dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.
Basically, the old choices of
dualism, materialism, and idealism still hold sway
in practice, even when they are eschewed
in theory.
If we are truly to overcome
dualism, we must recognize that every natural entity resembles human experience
in some way, for there is nothing of which we can be more sure than that there are human experiences
in the world.
In starting with the evolving world, I do not presuppose like the naturalists or Marxists that the world is self - sufficient, i.e., that it has all the powers needed to evolve itself, for this presupposition which is really nothing else but the notion of an Aristotelian nature has not really transcended the
dualism of a natural and a supernatural order.
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 rejec
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 rejec
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 rejec
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.
While it is true that the event of the Crucifixion, or the movement of the universal process of atonement, reveals the self - estrangement of God, a polarity manifesting itself
in the yawning chasm between the Father and the Son, a consistent and radical form of faith must never fall into a nondialectical
dualism by wholly isolating the alien God and the incarnate Word.
Whereas the effort to overcome
dualism was doomed to failure when nature was conceived as material substance, a nondual view follows quite naturally when nature is conceived first and foremost
in terms of events.
Jesus does not think of man
in terms of the anthropological
dualism of Hellenistic mysticism; that is, he does not speak of the tragedy of man, of the entangling of the divine soul
in the earthly body, of its purification and liberation, either through cultic means or through contemplation, devotion, and absorption of self into the Infinite.
This
dualism reached its zenith
in Western civilization when it combined with a puritan zeal that was thorough
in removing beauty and fun from life
in every aspect,
in instituting and institutionalizing the repressive mentality, and
in identifying Christianity with a strict moralism and a rigid austerity.
Consequently, faith,
in its Christian expression, must repudiate a non-dialectical
dualism.
My joint rejection of
dualism and materialism, that is, my idealism or psychicalism, came initially from no teacher but from my own experience, interpreted, as I later found Croce interpreting experience —
in his aesthetics, which he regarded as prior to ontology for reasons that I also had
in mind.
This does not directly challenge economists»
dualism, but it does show that their lack of interest
in the natural world leads them to treat it only
in categories they derive from the study of the industrial economy.
Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments
in modern physics, a Cartesian
dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.
This dimension of Hellenism is an important source of much of our traditional
dualisms, such as soul - body and the denigration of worldliness, which
in part was adopted by the Christian tradition.
Dualism drives
in the direction of the commodification of everything.
Rather they emphasize the experience of mystical illumination and seek
in their religious action to overcome all
dualisms and find unity with nature and the universe.
In order to maintain a dipolarity of process and permanence, rather than an incoherent
dualism of these principles, whatever exists at the termination of a process / whole must be sustained by another process, that is, must be a part of some new creating whole.
The philosophy you are referring to relies on a concept called «
dualism», I don't believe
in dualism (as there's no proof for it).
The Christian
dualism of saved soul and unsaved body
in one and the same church became embodied
in the American
dualism of free and unfree
in one and the same country.
In the latter case, it is the
dualism of history and nature, with the assumption that nature is not historical.
In the ecological movement, it is above all the
dualism of the human and the natural that is opposed.
Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others
in that department against
dualism and
in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.
Dualism is one of the main obstacles that the institutional church has placed
in front of non-church people.