Sentences with phrase «neo-gnostic dualists»

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.

The Mind and the Brain is his attempt to unseat that philosophy and substitute a dualist conception of mind (according to which mind and brain are ontologically distinct).

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.

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.

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.

This is why Brightman is a «dualist at heart»; he recognizes the difficulty, nay, the near impossibility of safely gaining the other side, while being convinced (for no clear reason) that there is another side.

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?

First off, I am not a substance dualist.

Dualists must suppose that they did not exist on our planet, and probably in the whole solar system, before animals and man existed.

G. C. Herkouwer, in his volume Holy Scripture, describes both the «dualist» and the «spiritualizer» and in.

Both dualist and spiritualizer believe they are protecting the gospel.

It is this fear of losing the «jewel» of the gospel which helps to account for Jewett and Mollenkott becoming dualists, and Elliot and Howard becoming spiritualizers.

There are the dualists, who accept matter and mind as on equal basis, and the two varieties of monists, those who put mind inside matter, and those who put matter inside mind.

The Trinitarian and Christological Councils doctrinally broke with the authoritarian metaphysical ideology of the Imperium, with its syncretic amalgam of monist monarchy (One Supreme God, One Emperor, One Ecumene) and dualist anarchy (subordinate polytheistic cults, rival regional imperial representatives, tolerance of indigenous cultures if they did not threaten monist monarchy)(MPP, CSAGW 278 - 408, ERW, AB).

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.

Paradoxically, in spite of their metaphysical monism, many other scientists are dualists in their epistemology, the theory of knowledge.

Although not a process thinker and considered a dualist by John Cobb, important is the work of Arthur R. Peacocke, a physical biochemist and Anglican priest and theologian.

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

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.

In fact, the primary virtue of panexperientialism is that, in spite of its initial implausibility (at least to those taught to see through dualist or materialist lenses), it enables us to coordinate our hard - core commonsense presuppositions with what we have learned about the world from the special sciences.

One locates sex difference in the body and not the soul, giving rise to a dualist ascetical theology; the other locates sex difference in the soul - body composite precisely because of the deep, natural unity of body and soul.

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.

I'm glad that Scot and others will try to rehabilitate the conventional narrative - to make it less violent, dualist, etc..

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.

The dualist says that the psychical aspect found in animals occurs only there, and the materialist, too, says this, adding, however, that even in animals it is nothing theoretically very crucial but is only a special case in the panorama of reality.

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.

In some dualist schemes God is a mind outside the universe.

11The latter comments occur in the context of the chapter on the «bifurcation of nature, but it is clear that Whitehead (at this point in time) holds the idealists responsible for this bifurcation, along with reductionists like Newton and dualists like Locke, because all bog down on the alleged difference, and the subsequent question of the relation between, nature and mind, rather than developing a pure concept of nature in itself.

At an earlier point in this letter he writes, helpfully developing the implications of his dualist empiricism:

For myself I nevertheless find the discontinuities in nature so great and so obvious that I stick to the dualist position as an essential attitude of mind — I am, so to speak, a pragmatic dualist.

Dualists, they taught that the material world is evil and the immaterial world good.

Dualists, on the other hand, believed that man's eternal soul was imprisoned in a temporal body.

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

He might well grant that the dualist had a point in regarding the functioning of the material world in a negative way — as a world whose process necessitates the extermination of all sentient reality.

How could any dualist grant Paul's seemingly paradoxical claim that though our sinful deeds are indeed works of the «flesh,» our ultimate hope lies in «the redemption of our bodies»?

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

On the other hand, for the dualist of Paul's day, ironically, the split between mind and matter was the basis of moral certitude.

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.

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.

For a defense of the theses that Bergson, unlike James, was not primarily a psychologist, but was, rather, a speculative metaphysician and that he was in no sense a neo-Cartesian dualist who endorsed a split between durational consciousness and a nondurational material universe, see my: «Bergson's Dualism in Time and Free Will,» P54: 83 - 106.

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

The UK, unlike some other states, is a dualist country where international treaties do not form part of the domestic law.

Lent himself is unsparing in his descriptions of the cruelty and brutality meted out by righteous monotheists and dualists, their meaning - patterns justifying colonialism and empire.

But, he said, this dualist view is no longer in vogue.