Sentences with phrase «dualistic philosophies»

As against all Manichean or dualistic philosophies, as also against all those religions which offer escape from the world into an ethereal realm of pure spirit, Christianity has denied that the world of things is evil.

In dualistic philosophies reality is perceived as individualized, independent.

A frankly dualistic philosophy, the objection states, has certain advantages over a monistic outlook that tries to find analogous elements in man and the sub-human levels.

Not exact matches

At that time this philosophy was probably no more than a dualistic world vision based on the principles of prakriti and purusha (matter and spirit).

It is not surprising that Christian theologians should have given a more dualistic cast to the I - Thou philosophy than Buber has.

One, influenced by European philosophy, was dualistic.

For Whitehead, one of the major problems that has «poisoned» much if not all of modem philosophy subsequent to Descartes is this dualistic way in which it treats of the relation between mind and nature (or nature and life as he sometimes phrases it).

Dualistic religion and philosophy sought this setting in a spiritual sphere completely beyond or above the temporal world.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.

And I think some understanding of dualistic mythology, philosophy and psychology may help explain the caesura of which Stace is speaking and the divorce of mind from nature that gives Klemke's ideas their essential structure.

Combining performance, video, photography, and installation, her work addresses issues of the displaced self and the other, while investigating the dualistic and existential nature of philosophy, such as the relationship of yin and yang to life and death, mobility to immobility, and location to dislocation.

I'm intrigued by this dualistic description of Philosophy.