Sentences with phrase «on dualism»

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Accompanying the attack on dualism has been the reclaiming of incarnational theology.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

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He makes some surprising claims in the chapter on human beings, arguing for a strong Cartesian dualism of soul and body for humans, but claiming that dogs and cats have immaterial souls as well.

On the other hand, I was troubled by the dualism involved in his revelational positivism.

to ihaftr, thats why we have to make a paradigm shift in our concept of Who is God from dualism, meaning He is separate from us to Holism, one with Him, This is very significant this shift for it will have a profound effect on the development of our concsience, Social responsibility and even altruism will be high virtue in this level of consciousness.

Only my realisation in that year that the whole human race was on a collision course with disaster shook me out of this dualism and forced me to rethink my theology in light of this most inclusive question of human destiny.

Perhaps the most important dualism never foisted on the Orthodox is that between academic theology and worship.

On the other hand, there are old and new forms of Manichaean dualism that surrender the structures of this life to the devil, and deny that those structures come from the benevolent hand of God.

On the whole, dualism was accepted by the general culture.

Kantian dualism of the phenomena, on the one side, and Geist, on the other, superseded the Cartesian dualism of matter and mind for most German intellectual work.

The philosophy you are referring to relies on a concept called «dualism», I don't believe in dualism (as there's no proof for it).

Avoiding the extremes of both a materialistic monism and a mind - body dualism, Ashbrook and Albright advocate an emergent holism that recognizes that the brain has a «bottom up» influence on the mind, but also that the mind has a «top - down» influence on the brain.

What he had to insist on, against this wholly bodily account, was the psychic aspect.2 Whitehead, on the other hand, in the wake of Cartesian dualism, was faced with the necessity of bringing his readers» attention back to the bodily implications in perception.

Dualism, in all its forms, and on every level.

By thus divorcing this relation from the clear ethical implications which both Buber and Ferdinand Ebner have given it, Heim makes possible a dualism on the basis of which he characterizes man's relation with the eternal Thou as taking place in an altogether different dimension from his relation with his human Thou.

For some this has meant a more and more complete determinism and naturalism, for others a return to Gnostic ideas of dualism or early Protestant emphases on original sin.

Once we reject the dualism of mind and nature we must place our experience of temporality on a continuum with the rest of physical reality.

On the one hand he combats dualism by presenting a view of human beings «shorn of its dependence of speaking of the soul», because he thinks that the soul brings in dualism.

[4] Religious historian James Noel points out the problematics inherent in the contradictory worldviews upon which New Thought is based: philosophical non-dualism on the one hand, and the dualism of the Judeo - Christian biblical tradition on the other.

The ambiguities in the struggles for bread and justice call him away from such simplistic dualism to work on what he calls «the left wing of the possible.»

The dominant society is built on a paradigm of dualism and polarity — us and them, good - guys and bad - guys, right and wrong, friend and foe, haves and have - nots.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

Another form of this dualism is the commonly made claim that the evolutionary process continues on the human level with cultural evolution, which is totally distinct from biological evolution.

The characteristic Western mind - set has accorded intrinsic value, and hence duties of justice, principally to the upper half of the dualism and has considered it appropriate for those on the lower half to be used for the benefit of those on the upper.

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Also the Jewish idea of God is to be marked off on the negative side from any metaphysical dualism.

This point is affirmed not only by panexperientialism's insistence on the «ontological principle,» according to which only actualities can act (PR 19, 24, 43), but also by its rejection of both dualism and supernaturalism.

It was early Christians» refusal of dualism, their demand that God redeem the whole person, that forced on them the question of bodily resurrection.

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

The anthropocentrism with respect to value is based on a metaphysical dualism.

On the issue of Greek dualism, there are hundreds of sources.

Why then, Bynum asks, did the early church — and not we who supposedly have discovered the significance of the body and renounced all dualism — reflect so intently on the resurrection of the body?

But, curiously enough, when I came to my first clear conviction on the materialism - dualism - idealism issue it was not of any particular philosopher or writer that I was thinking but of life and nature as I then experienced them while serving in a humble role in an army hospital.

Social liberal ideology is like Gnosticism in its reliance (which is usually implicit) on one form or another of person - body (or self - body) dualism; but dualism is only one feature of Gnosticism (albeit a very important one).

The sharp dualism between tile natural, the vital, the organic, and the spiritual, on the one hand, and the artificial, the rational, the mechanistic, and the material, on the other, needs to be challenged.

Searle's account of consciousness, in short, merely throws doubt on the wisdom of his initial assumption — that there are only two alternatives for tackling the problem of consciousness: either search for a causal theory or succumb to some sort of vicious Cartesian dualism.

As with the discussion on epistemology, the two were separated by the ancient perspectives of monism and dualism.

(Only national defense takes on its special urgency in the spotlight of a cosmological dualism that shines most brightly from the religious right, to whom Satan and his powers and principalities remain most actively evil.)

In fact, such texts, most of which date no earlier than the late second century, favor an extreme dualism between spirit and body and offer little consolation for those hoping to celebrate the sexual passions that are so much on Brown's mind.

As one raised on Plato's dualism and, earlier, the Bible Belt Protestant version of it, I had already come to suspect the validity of this notion before the experience of childbirth erased the last trace.

Without reverting to a mind - body dualism, we could point to the Occasions on which the body is not merely the passive instrument of the will.

Dualism is the pivotal mythic and philosophical construct on which this inversion has turned.

Alice Rossi in her thoughtful article «A Biosocial Perspective on Parenting» (Daedalus, Spring 1977) presents a brilliant challenge to the prevailing sociological dualism that tends to discount physiological factors in social systems and relationships.

Inherited sexual dualisms (spirit regarded as essentially different from and superior to body, and — the patriarchal counterpart — male regarded as essentially different from and superior to female) continue to have a formidable grip on our personal lives, our communal ethos and our institutional structures.

We had opposed on ontological grounds the dualisms of mind and body, of humanity and nature, even of God and world.

Descartes, on the other hand, seems to have established a clear dichotomy between the two, mirrored in the mind / body dualism for which he is famous.

There was some emphasis on a more organic way of thinking, and the dualism of human beings and the natural world was not quite as sharp.

Industrialists may hope to dominate nature, and environmentalists to protect it — but both camps depend on the same dualism, on a conception of nature as something to which humanity has no fundamental link, and in which we have no inherent place.

Renowned for his musings on the nature of subjective experience, the 17th - century French philosopher and mathematician eloquently distilled the dualism of mind and body intrinsic to the human condition — a phenomenon that continues to preoccupy 21st - century neuroscientists and philosophers alike.