Sentences with phrase «soul dualism»

Second, there were philosophic barriers to mutual accord: Paul's Hebraic psychosomatic anthropology and the Corinthians» body - soul dualism.

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.

For scientists, body / soul dualism is out — but they're pretty happy talking about consciousness in non-bodily terms, and leaving it to the philosophers to explain its interaction with our brains in the way Descartes had to explain the soul.

This uniqueness does not force us to return to the Cartesian body - soul dualism.

Not exact matches

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.

Perhaps the negative attitude is due to the influence of Platonic dualism, the distinction between man's body and soul.

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.

Jesus does not think of man in terms of the anthropological dualism of Hellenistic mysticism; that is, he does not speak of the tragedy of man, of the entangling of the divine soul in the earthly body, of its purification and liberation, either through cultic means or through contemplation, devotion, and absorption of self into the Infinite.

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.

At the same time, one avoids the dualism that is so unfashionable at present: the mind / soul is not held to be a separate, inserted entity, but a phenomenon that emerges naturally from the brain / body.

This dimension of Hellenism is an important source of much of our traditional dualisms, such as soul - body and the denigration of worldliness, which in part was adopted by the Christian tradition.

The Christian dualism of saved soul and unsaved body in one and the same church became embodied in the American dualism of free and unfree in one and the same country.

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.

In the former case, the dualism is usually that of soul and body, with the assumption that only human beings have souls.

In this exclusion of a dualism between «life in the soul» and «life in the world» emunah brings together the wholeness of the Single One, the «direction» of the man of true decision, and the relation with the concrete of the dialogical man.

The other great failure of Fuller's account (also shared by Gillespie) is his interpretation of the Christian tradition in terms of the dualism of body and soul.

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.

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.

[9] As the mind is not a power of the soul in Kenny, he finishes up in the very dualism he sets out to avoid, for the mind is as isolated in Kenny as it is in Descartes.

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.

I'll tell you about trusting our souls and our bodies, about believing in the inherent goodness of our physicality, about the lie of dualism separating our spirits and our bodies.

When asked about the body - soul distinction, Polkinghorne, argued engagingly for a distance from dualism, while maintaining a certain complimentarity of the physical and the spiritual.

Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

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.

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.

There was a dualism of soul and body.

The second of the dualisms requiring special attention is that of soul and body.

It is the dualism of soul and body, spirit and nature, mind and matter that has made possible the shift of problematics from that of how to explain death if everything is alive, to that of how to explain life if everything is dead.

For by placing the soul or mind in a sphere radically different from that of physical reality, dualism abandons the physical universe to the realm of the spiritless and mindless.

Whitehead was the Knight in Shining Armour (some people seem to think him only the White Knight) who rode out to do battle against any and every form of what he called the Bifurcation of Nature — whether it was the Cartesian Dualism or the alienation which the sensitive soul feels when it learns that water may be represented as H2O.

Indeed, according to Aristotle, who formulated the theory of hylomorphism ¯ the theory whereby the soul is the form of the body, the polar opposite of mind / body dualism ¯ body and soul are so closely intertwined that they can not be understood without one another.

Common to many of them and to Greek thought was a dualism which regarded matter, including flesh, as evil and sought to emancipate the human soul from it and so to achieve immortality.

In truth, however, Descartes» dualism is no insuperable obstacle to Whitehead, since Descartes does acknowledge that interactions between mind and body exist — they are discussed in considerable detail in The Passions of the Soul.

In the question time he clarified that his main desire was to avoid Cartesian dualism, not the Catholic doctrine of the spiritual soul.

This resource can be used as an introduction lesson - or developed into useful revision lessons as it explores with students the following ideas: Clarification of reasons why people believe in life after death Reasons why people DO N'T believe in life after death The relationship between the soul / mind and body Monism / Dualism Immortality of the soul Analysis of Plato A quick discussion on Descartes

This lesson can work as an introduction or a revision lesson and will introduce to students key terms such as dualism and monism, while analysing teachings from the Bible such as St. Paul on the soul