Sentences with phrase «modern dualism»

Curiously, though the discoveries of subatomic physics signal to some a breakdown of modern dualism, the implications of such discoveries have been slow to penetrate most people's consciousness (including that of many scientists), and they may in fact merely lead to another sort of dualism.

Though modern dualism tends to lead toward a philosophic skepticism, it is skepticism with a bias.

We have allowed ourselves to accept the modern dualism of humanity and nature, mind and body.

Not exact matches

Dualism poses insuperable philosophical problems; so modern Western philosophy can be seen as a struggle to overcome it.

The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption of «one - world order of meaning» has rendered the modern consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond man's own human powers and resources.

Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.

The dualism emerging from anthropocentric views of salvation was further rigidified in the development of modern philosophy.

This dualism replaced the great chain of being that depicted reality in terms of degrees of being and value as the dominant vision of the modern world.

The dualism we find in Descartes encourages a modern form of Gnosticism.

The problems of modern philosophy's experiment in dualism is discussed with insights from Hegel, Nietzsche and Whitehead.

Modern expressions of reason were deformed into either an extrinsicism (positivism) or an immanentism (idealism) in which nature and history, science and morality, fact and value, bureaucracy and community, knowing and feeling, were (1) either sundered from one another in various forms of dualism, e.g., mechanism - vitalism, scientism - emotivisrn, etc., (2) or were conflated into various forms of monism, e.g., materialism, idealism, etc. (LL 66 - 79, 146 - 53, 213 - 19, 245 - 64, 285 - 94, SV 1 - 60).

Needless to say, the paradox between metaphysical monism and epistemological dualism in much of modern science presents immense philosophical difficulties.

Modern non-religious man is rebelling against a false notion of God, but his alternative position, unfortunately enough, still derives from a dualism, only that now he chooses man over God.

Dr. Lydia Jaeger suggests that a latent Greek - inspired dualism prevents Thomas Aquinas» hylomorphism from cohering with modern insights into the mathematical intelligibility of the phenomenon of change.

«The modern pagan, the child of technology or the «mass man,» does not even enjoy the anguish of dualism or the comfort of myth.

Dualism is found in the idea that we in the west are the enlightened ones, with our modern science and technology, and all the world must bow to our superior knowledge.

Second, both thinkers framed their philosophies as reactions against the intellectual heritage of classical modern science and philosophy, Galilean - Cartesian physics, and Cartesian mind - body dualisms.

Modern religion, Bellah asserts, is distinguished from all previous varieties by a «collapse of the dualism that was so crucial to all the historic religions.»

Nevertheless, the more common form of modern metaphysics is dualism.

Without the sphere of unconscious and lifeless chunks of matter delineated by dualism such a methodological ideal (which animates current efforts especially in biology to find the physico - chemical «secret» of life) could hardly have taken hold in modern scientific thought.

Placing his work in direct conversation with the tenets of modern and postmodern painting, Marshall refuses the marginalized status of black art and the limiting dualisms, such as abstraction versus figuration, that have reinforced this marginalization.