Sentences with phrase «rejects dualism»

For him, transcendence rejects the dualism of body and soul, of time and eternity, etc., and is not a picture story of how everything is going to end up but means keeping ourselves aware that» [t] omorrow can be different.

This group rejects dualism (for both theological and scientific reasons) but refuses simply to identify mind with brain.

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.

Nevertheless, today Christian theologians for the most part reject dualism, at least in its more extreme forms, and biblical scholars point out that it is alien to the Bible.

For, if we can learn from animals something important about inanimate nature, we can do it only by rejecting both dualism and materialism.

They apparently reject any dualism that would give to mind a separate ontological status.

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Both reject any sort of final metaphysical dualism.

In the second book of the De anima, in a remark that anticipates his claim in Book three that a part of the soul (the intellect) is separable and immortal, Aristotle appears to allude to the sort of Platonic dualism that he would reject.

First, dualism is rejected.

Although the mainstreams of Christianity and Judaism long ago rejected it, what is sometimes described as «body - self dualism» is back with a vengeance, and its followers are legion.

The dualism of good and evil is to be rejected, at least when it entails that some things or events are good and others bad.

In Buddhist logic, even the dualism of A or not - A is rejected.

The examination of human experience for factors which could be used to account for other natural occurrences presents itself as a normal method of procedure for one who rejects the Cartesian type of dualism.

Process thought clearly rejects Cartesian matter - mind dualism and thereby rejects the monistic alternatives of materialism and idealism which depend upon Cartesian concepts of matter and mind.

We will take creation and incarnation themes seriously, and reject Gnostic dualism that denigrates the material and terrestrial aspects of life.

Cartesian dualism, sharply separating mind and body, had long been rejected by the twentieth century and with it the Platonic idea of a soul, or mind, that could exist independently and forever apart from a body.

Another form of magic in fantasy occurs when authors, specifically Christian authors, reject what in this approach appears to be a Manichaean dualism with good and evil in conflict and with its resolution left in human hands.

Just as Hartshorne's cosmology abandons the traditional Western metaphysical dualism of matter and mind, so his anthropology rejects the derivative notion, explicitly advocated by Plato and Descartes, that man is basically a dualistic being composed of a material body and a spiritual soul.

Kim has been led to a dead end because, correctly seeing that a nonreductive materialism is impossible, 8 he believes that there are only three other options, all of which are extremely problematic: reductive materialism, which reduces the psychological to the physical (as conventionally understood); eliminative materialism, which, realizing that reduction is impossible, excludes the psychological from its ontology; and ontological dualism, which rejects physicalism altogether.

Although materialism rejects the Cartesian dualism of two kinds of actual entities, it does accept the Cartesian view of «matter» or «the physical» upon which that dualism was based.

Behind this dismissiveness lies the dualism that is more and more common today: the tendency to disconnect body from spirit and to reject the Catholic approach that the body is part of the person and that its physical functions are meant to reflect and fulfil the aspirations of the soul.

Its self - definition as a form of materialism seems to reject the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter.

Thus, process thought rejects both dualism and monism.

Rejecting Cartesian dualism in favor of what he calls «dual - aspect monism,» Polkinghorne opens biology to the existence of supra - physical consciousness or spirit; and he opens physics to a reality that transcends the world of the Big Bang and the evolution of conscious life.

The subject - predicate dogma, the scholastic dualism Descartes seemed unable to reject, only obscures some of the truly important aspects of the cogito which inspired Whitehead's ontological principle.

Christianity, in contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, has not only established a dualism of man and nature, but has also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends... Hence we shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.

He keeps them alive by rejecting, through the very act of painting itself, the dualism of the mind - body split that has infected Western thinking from the Greeks onward.

Where his early work simply collided high and low, black and white, sacred and profane, art and shit, Ofili now makes more commanding, syncretic images — of the raising of Lazarus, or couples boogying on intricately patterned dance floors — that reject such dualism and thrill to mixing, creolisation, and promiscuity.

(New York Times, June 13, 1943) Heavily influenced by Jungian philosophy, its concept of dualism, and rejecting the constraints of European modernism, Gottlieb turned to primitive and archaic symbols in order to invoke the collective unconscious.