Sentences with phrase «dualism of»

If we limit our conception of a person's life to what is «storied» in words, ignoring the functional biological whole of mind and body, we may slip into the dualism of Descartian philosophy.

While zombies are horrifying, infectious, flesh - eating ghouls, zombies as a construct are one - dimensional relative to the complex dualism of a werewolf or the variegated sexuality of a vampire.

With the use of thick impasto of paintstick, Richard Serra has been creating drawings which resonate the artist's long - lasting devotion to the examination of the dualism of physical and cognitive perception of form.

On a deeper level, his obsession with the theme of the dualism of good and evil is symbolized through his use of light and dark.

The concept of time, specifically the dualism of day and night and the lightness and darkness that signifies its passing, is often explored in works that underline the experiential relationship between the viewer and his / her surroundings.

Marianne Vlaschits illustrates this moment on Gethen, a planet whose society is not based on a permanent dualism of the sexes.

The paintings raise themes of immigration, while the dualism of the imagery — simultaneously evoking the slave trade and an amusement park «Tunnel of Love» ride — refer to issues of class mobility and ambition central to American life.

He has been fascinated by the dualism of things since a very young age, which is displayed in his fascination over compositions in black and white.

He keeps them alive by rejecting, through the very act of painting itself, the dualism of the mind - body split that has infected Western thinking from the Greeks onward.

Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991) brought light to his paintings through the dualism of his monumental black ovoid forms set against a painted white plane in his Elegies to the Spanish Republic series for which he is most well - known.

Renowned for his musings on the nature of subjective experience, the 17th - century French philosopher and mathematician eloquently distilled the dualism of mind and body intrinsic to the human condition — a phenomenon that continues to preoccupy 21st - century neuroscientists and philosophers alike.

Jokes about Mustafi aside, the points is that every decision we make, like everything else, isn't so much a dualism of right and wrong but part of a spectrum of wrongness.

It is easy, of course, once a conceptual dualism of this kind has been established, to argue that culture can not be understood sociologically unless it is «explained» in terms of social structure — unless the «sources» or «causes» of religious beliefs are located within such obdurate features of the social world as class interests, power relations, social networks, family backgrounds, and the like.

Christianity, in contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, has not only established a dualism of man and nature, but has also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends... Hence we shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.

There was some emphasis on a more organic way of thinking, and the dualism of human beings and the natural world was not quite as sharp.

But the effect of overcoming the dualism of the psychical and the material by pronouncing entirely in favor of the psychical is different from overcoming the dualism of the mental and the physical by saying that both elements are present in every occasion as forms of feeling.

These non-Catholics saw in the Reformation the seed of a Cartesian dualism of which Catholic thinkers are so critical.

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.

These include an evangelical theology of «born again» conversion; a theology of American exceptionalism as grounded in the virtue of compassion; a Calvinist theology of vocation; and a Manichaean dualism of good and evil.

Bergson not only maintains an irreducible dualism of the ways of knowing but also the absolute character of both.

But in this way it creates an intolerable dualism of two completely heterogeneous realms without any attempt to relate them in some intelligible way.

Such judgments seem to demand an ontological dualism of the human and the natural that is incompatible with Whiteheadian process philosophy.

There was a dualism of spirit and matter.

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.»

Instead of a mind - body dualism of two distinct substances, we have two ways of talking about a single set of events.

It is the dualism of soul and body, spirit and nature, mind and matter that has made possible the shift of problematics from that of how to explain death if everything is alive, to that of how to explain life if everything is dead.

There was a dualism of soul and body.

There was a dualism of the human and the natural.

James had no time for any sort of dualism of thinking and doing, believing and acting.

Part of the problem is that theologians find it hard to escape the rigid dualism of sacred and profane, subject and object, nature and supernature.

For the latter a fundamental dualism of human and divine mind with mutual interaction but not inclusion characterizes the unity between them.

Even after Christianity embraced the dualism of the Greek world, the mainstream of Christian ascetical life was still not completely anti-materialist.

The field concept was the product of a study of forces active between bodies, under the influence of a wish to surmount the dualism of body and force.

Consistently with this Einstein sought to resolve the remaining dualism of matter and space by conceiving matter as an attribute of space, the particles being singularities of the metrical field.

We have already referred to the dualism of the two worlds in the medieval view.

This dualism of all existence into two ultimate kinds, physical and mental, has been determinative of almost all thought since that time.

Furthermore, according to William Dean, the empiricism of Whitehead's philosophy not only destroys the dualism of the subject and object, but also other traditional dualisms, such as those of spirit - matter and human - nonhuman, in a manner that even transcends Derrida's works (DP 8).

According to John Cobb, Whitehead overcomes the epistemological and metaphysical dualism of the subject and the object while preserving a distinction between them.

I want to argue for the advantages of his dualism of eternal objects and actual entities over Hartshorne's monism of concrete actual entities containing the universal forms as abstract parts.

Existentialist theology has resigned itself to an inexorable dualism of nature and freedom, thus implicitly endorsing the view that the core of human existence subsists in a domain completely different from the world of nature.

[257] Whitehead wants to abolish the dualism of Descartes, and he succeeds insofar as one considers his concept of an «actual entity» with its «physical» and «mental» pole.

Its self - definition as a form of materialism seems to reject the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter.

Martin Luther broke radically with one element of this medieval view — namely, the ethical dualism of the religious and the secular.

This stratification, along with a characteristic Hellenic dualism of body and spirit, was to have serious consequences in medieval thought.

With regard to the universal stuff embodied in all actual things, the panexperientialist version of physicalism refuses not only the Cartesian dualism of stuffs but also the choice between the Cartesian material and mental stuffs (the choice that has led to the split, among would - be nondualists, between materialists and idealists).

Although materialism rejects the Cartesian dualism of two kinds of actual entities, it does accept the Cartesian view of «matter» or «the physical» upon which that dualism was based.

The biblical scholarship of modernity, insofar as it continues to be captive to the dualism of Kantian epistemology, is another kind of Babylonian captivity, which debars the signs of identification and recognition by which the risen Jesus made himself known.

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

Just as Hartshorne's cosmology abandons the traditional Western metaphysical dualism of matter and mind, so his anthropology rejects the derivative notion, explicitly advocated by Plato and Descartes, that man is basically a dualistic being composed of a material body and a spiritual soul.

The dualism of separate but equal roles associated with men and women in ministry is perpetuated in denominations where pastors are ordained, but Christian educators are consecrated.