If internal relations are based upon subject - object interaction only, then Whiteheadians have not really
overcome a dualism which may be used to justify treating others as means rather than ends.
Daly described Whitehead's thought as a unity of technical and ontological reason, intended to
overcome the dualism of intellectuality and shallow objective consciousness.
Whereas the effort to
overcome dualism was doomed to failure when nature was conceived as material substance, a nondual view follows quite naturally when nature is conceived first and foremost in terms of events.
The second way to bring consistency to Camus» theories, therefore, is to find a «transcendence» that provides a comprehensive unity to
overcome the dualism of mind - matter.
If we are truly to
overcome dualism, we must recognize that every natural entity resembles human experience in some way, for there is nothing of which we can be more sure than that there are human experiences in the world.
Among those who have genuinely
overcome dualism in their thinking about humanity and the rest of the world, I find two major groups.
Rather they emphasize the experience of mystical illumination and seek in their religious action to
overcome all dualisms and find unity with nature and the universe.
Second, feminists can affirm the Whiteheadian attempt to
overcome dualisms.
The way to deal with dualism is not by attacking members» stupidity or insensitivity, but by
overcoming the dualism implicit in the way most members currently experience the church.
But the effect of
overcoming the dualism of the psychical and the material by pronouncing entirely in favor of the psychical is different from
overcoming the dualism of the mental and the physical by saying that both elements are present in every occasion as forms of feeling.
Not exact matches
By treating the spiritual as a dimension of the material, Smith
overcomes every trace of
dualism between this world and the next.
First, Whitehead's system provides a comprehensive unity to
overcome the subject - object
dualism that prohibits Camus from «defining» a value that is grounded in nature.
What is important here is to see the
overcoming of another
dualism.
Dualism poses insuperable philosophical problems; so modern Western philosophy can be seen as a struggle to
overcome it.
But whether I use the term «psychicalism,» favored by the process philosophers, or such terms as Russell's «neutral stuff» or Feigl's distinction between the physical as the «reference» and the psychical as the «sense,» I am merely positing a name, not arguing philosophically for a conceptual scheme designed to
overcome the body / mind
dualism.
Most important is the
overcoming of the subject - object and self - other
dualisms.
Feminists want, above all, to
overcome the deep
dualism of male / female that shapes so much of our culture.
His introduction of causal efficacy as a mode of perception is designed to
overcome this schism, what he refers to as the «bifurcation of nature» introduced into philosophy by the
dualism of Descartes and Locke.
But since there is finally no Boddhisattva «self,» and since all things are equally himself, the
dualism was
overcome.
When authors leave out the soul in order to avoid what they see as an arbitrary
dualism, they often run into difficulties as great as those they seek to
overcome.
Soelle's obvious answer is that there is a way to
overcome the God / world dichotomy (and attendant
dualisms) through a non-imperialistic re-conception of God.
In addition to the priority of experience in process philosophy, many feminists have noted the importance of Whitehead» s attempt to
overcome classical
dualisms.
Yet that traditional
dualism left a deposit of attitudes which we have yet to
overcome, and whose consequences we have only begun to acknowledge in the twentieth century.
Thereby we can
overcome the usual
dualism by which causation is regarded as a feature of the realm of matter, while perception is conceived as belonging only to mind.
Precisely because everything, from lowest to highest, shares the characteristic of being an actual entity, Whitehead
overcomes the «basic
dualism of man and nature.»
Gerard Kelly suggests ways to
overcome this false
dualism.
There is still a subtle
dualism operative here that can be
overcome only if we recognize nature's inherent creativity even apart from us.
According to John Cobb, Whitehead
overcomes the epistemological and metaphysical
dualism of the subject and the object while preserving a distinction between them.
[3] Closely related, it is also possible that he also began to suspect that apocalyptic thought had some validity, a suspicion that process thought was designed to
overcome, for apocalyptic thought held to a
dualism — although civilizations shall be shattered and the earth shall fall to pieces and life shall come to an end, another, truer, more real reality remains.
Both Whitehead and his contemporary, Husserl, held that
dualism could indeed be
overcome philosophically, by seeking the fundamental unity in a domain of reality that lies anterior, in some sense, to the sharp subject - object split, justified though that split be in certain contexts.