Sentences with word «dualist»

A body, strictly speaking, is not a person ¯ and you don't have to be the sort of mind / body dualist who thinks the soul is a homunculus driving the body to see that.

Nevertheless, it must seem strange that Whitehead could have found the ontological principle foreshadowed in the work of as staunch a mind / body dualist as Descartes.

This demonstrates a misunderstanding of the current dualist position between domestic and international law.

Under the UK's dualist system international law is not directly enforceable unless incorporated into domestic law.

The ancient dualist might have had some difficulty with what Paul says about the creation being «set free.»

Dualists believe there are two separate but interacting dimensions within the human person: soul (or mind) and brain.

However, although they are monists metaphysically speaking, in that they reduce reality to only one kind of stuff, they remain dualists in their epistemology, that is, in their view of knowledge.

Augustine's anthropology is frequently deemed Platonic, hence dualist, whereby soul and body are conceived as two loosely associated substances - even that the soul is the man.

St. Dominic founded the Order of Preachers after a long contemplative season which, in the words of one biographer «burst into flame» when he encountered Albigensians (ancient Manichean dualists) on travels through southern France.

Again the views of Sir Karl Popper and the logician William Kneale are, in some sense at least, unashamedly dualist.

In fact a great many biologists and physicists of great reputation — Paul Weiss, Polanyi, Elsasser, Eccles and Sherrington (to mention only a few) are presumably dualists, of one type and degree or another.

They never really staked themselves on the possibility of a truly pure and independent account of anything anyway, so that to be told that their definitions and descriptions are value - laden, subjective, contextual, and speculative is not the problem it would be for a Continental dualist who accepts still a fact - value distinction and the possibility of purely factual, value - free description.

Progressive dualists similarly mock calls to work for justice as imposing unnecessary shoulds upon them that get in the way of them being present with their souls.

We can not remain mere dualists, for that means giving up the hope of universal explanatory principles; and we can not agree upon the materialistic form of monism, not only because it is an attempt to explain away mind, but also because it leaves «matter» essentially mysterious.

Moreover, some ancient Gnostics, in what Jones rightly describes as their «obsession with salvation and purification,» followed a path that, while erroneous, is unlike — and superior to — the hedonism of many contemporary neo-Gnostic dualists.

(4) Locke struggles with the question of whether matter is passive or active — he is no unequivocal dualist — and there are strong indications that he thought matter was, indeed, active.

Dualists exempt the human mind from the laws of physics.

The mind - body dualists whose first idea for a problem is to model it on a computer.

And how fascinating that so many see the source of the ills in those social, economic, legal, and technological developments that have roots in the transcendental, even dualist, thought that God is other than the world, and that in our obedience to God we may be called upon to change the world.

Torrance believed that modern theology remained trapped within dualist habits of thought that have plagued the mind of the Church since ancient times, damaging and disrupting its apprehension of the reality of our union with Christ.

No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines.

The European Court of Justice's approach in the Kadi decision has already been described as sharply dualist (see, Professor Joseph Weiler's EJIL editorial, posted here on this blog and Gráinne de Búrca, «The European Court of Justice and the International Legal Order after Kadi ``, Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 01/09).

When Marcion, the greatest of the second - century Christian dualists, insisted that the world was so fundamentally evil that the Creator God of the Old Testament, who was responsible for so immense a debacle, could only be a morally defective being, he was not speaking as some disillusioned idealist: rather, he was reflecting the hard, unsentimental realism of his time.

While an earlier generation of feminists accepted psychological identity as integrated with bodily form, today's feminists are increasingly strict mind - body dualists, holding that the mind determines gender entirely apart from biology --- a ghost in the body's machine.

Which the goldbugs want to hear, in the dualist world of gold going up vs. seeking out good news about the dollar going down because it's good for gold.

And yet we must not be afraid of the «dualist» tag, rightly understood, when speaking about human nature.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

Moreover, our feminist thinkers rightly point out that such a dualist view of reality is largely responsible for maintaining a patriarchal and hierarchical model of society.

Neuroscience, according to the dualists, merely correlatesmind - activity and brain - activity — it does not reduce one to the other.

If one is a dualist, one will decide against the body.

If you are a mathematician, you are likely a dualist (platonist, another kind of magic dualist at the beginning).

Now the claim that could appropriately be advanced on behalf of this form of panpsychism in respect of considerations of parsimony would be that it does with fewer kinds of entity what it would be vain to do with more — that it does with one kind of entity what the dualist only achieves with two.

What if we realize that God cares about both this life and the afterlife, that for God, who is not a dualist, they are both just different facets of one reality called life?

Despite the importance in Buber's recent thought of such terms as contradiction, tragedy, eclipse of God, and «radical evil,» he remains essentially different from even the least extreme of the dualists.