Those who approach matters from
a dualistic point of view often miss this commonality of long - term interest, seeing primarily the tensions.
The philosophically instructed reader will notice that I have all along been placing myself at the ordinary
dualistic point of view of natural science and of common sense.
Not exact matches
My
point here is not to take sides with any of these speculations, but only to indicate that the initial insistence on locating humanity fully within nature, heightens the marvel of creation that is too often lost when we stay within our
dualistic compartments.
But for that matter, I do not quite accept the «atheism» of Marx or of the death - of - God theologians for the very same reason, namely, that their counter-arguments against traditional theism also take their
point of departure from the
dualistic framework.
Let us briefly review some representative arguments for the reality of God, not to make a critique of the arguments themselves, but to show the
dualistic framework as their
point of departure.
As I already
pointed out in a previous symposium on reductionism at the Villa Serbelloni (Rensch 1974), there are objections to
dualistic views.
My concern in this paper is not so much why this
dualistic problem exists (though I do think an answer can be provided), but to illustrate the nature of the problem as I see it and to
point to a possible way out of it.
This is not to say that passion never conflicts with principle, but rather that such conflict need not he exaggerated to the
point where we are encouraged to engage in (Kantian)
dualistic orgies.
Both of these
points have to do with what King terms «
Dualistic Transcendence»; and, at this point, I wish to state only that I do not regard such transcendence as false in a literal or ordinary sense, nor do I believe that a genuine dualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian t
Dualistic Transcendence»; and, at this
point, I wish to state only that I do not regard such transcendence as false in a literal or ordinary sense, nor do I believe that a genuine
dualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian t
dualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian tradition.
At this
point dualistic imagery which entered from foreign countries, especially from Persia, exercises its influence.
What can Whitehead, who refuses all
dualistic dichotomies between history and nature, mean by speaking of a division of the world at this
point?
The
point here is that the loss of immediacy of becoming is of essential significance to the
dualistic view.
Medieval Christendom was subject to a
dualistic tension between the secular and the religious, the temporal and the eternal, which made itself evident at many
points.
But once science uncovered the pervasive lifelessness of the physical universe, and
pointed out how precariously infinitesimal is the quantity of life and mind, then more dramatic consequences began to flow from our
dualistic heritage.
It has many
points in common with Delta immortality, but it is monistic rather than
dualistic.
That is a
dualistic, gnostic way of thinking which completely misses the
point of Scripture and the incarnation.