Not exact matches
They live and
think in terms of the
dualistic world view of heaven and earth
which is embedded in their respective Holy Scriptures.
Reinhold Niebuhr is less
dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his
thought is a dichotomy in
which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.
Obviously, the secularizers are still imprisoned by the hellenic
dualistic categories of
which they are heir, and obviously they have not learned to
think evolutionarily, or else they would have seen the possibility of transcendence in time.
The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the
dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western
thought in
which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.
And what Buddhism most immediately offers us is a vision of Sunya or Sunyata
which shatters and disperses our inevitably
dualistic modes of language and
thinking.
Meaning,
which requires expression through the narrative mode of consciousness, appears to
dualistic thinking as the concoction of our alienated subjectivity.
And I
think some understanding of
dualistic mythology, philosophy and psychology may help explain the caesura of
which Stace is speaking and the divorce of mind from nature that gives Klemke's ideas their essential structure.
He introduces a change of direction in his theoretical development,
which distances him from the
dualistic modes of
thought of the Continental tradition and from the conventional common sense feeling of plausibility.
That is a
dualistic, gnostic way of
thinking which completely misses the point of Scripture and the incarnation.