Not exact matches
Only the
dualistic form of the modern Western consciousness, which is grounded in an absolute distinction between the subject and the object of consciousness, instills us with the seemingly irrevocable
sense that the world or reality stands wholly outside of consciousness itself.
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.
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.
The same
dualistic myths that have made us feel exceptional have also led to our
sense of alienation from nature and purpose.
The wide dissemination in the Near and Middle East at this time of
dualistic faiths, the staple of that religious phenomenon loosely labeled Gnosticism, was another manifestation of the same malaise; while in Hellenism many suffered from a «
sense of helplessness in the hands of fate» which made them «wonder whether it is possible to be at home in the world at all.»
He introduces a change of direction in his theoretical development, which distances him from the
dualistic modes of thought of the Continental tradition and from the conventional common
sense feeling of plausibility.
The
dualistic commons
sense assumed that our experience gives us an independently existing material world the mysteries of which were being more and more fully understood by scientist.
But the common
sense remained
dualistic.
Works such as FRGL SML see Kohler attempting to make
sense of the nonsense existing within the
dualistic cityscape he inhabits.