…heritage taught them to avoid the metaphysical trappings of Cartesian mind-body dualism, for its tendency to drive a deep wedge between an “inner” world of pure consciousness and an “outer” world of social and material reality. Thus, while trying to steer clear of both the Scylla…
… such a personalistic worldview, however, angels and demons mapped onto a moral dualism: the cosmos itself is thus divided into “good” and “bad” (or evil) personal and spiritual agents.5 From these rudimentary building blocks, our ancestors envisaged a complex personalistic cosmo…
… and the life/death binary, grounded in Western philo- sophical and theological dualisms, to the critical analyses of the ways in which misogyny, trans- and queerphobia lead to ‘social death’, and how violence towards non-normative individuals strives to mark their lives and deat…
…l sermons, where he attempts to ind alternatives to the over-familiar Christian dualism of the corrupt body and the immortal soul. He instead ofers a diferent deinition of the human based on the recognition that Renaissance theological and medi- cal discourses were built upon a t…
…e are two opposing poles in theodicy regarding the problem of evil – monism and dualism, both of which are not Christian views but have influenced Christian thinking. Monism is a view that suggests that evil is only apparent but when looked at cosmically it would be considered go…
…een theory and experiment (Casti,92). 2 As will be seen in chapter 4, Cartesian dualism is substance-pluralistic and hence, stands in contrast with Schrödinger's substance monism. Chapter 1 Introduction However, as Chalmers (1982) has argued, observations are theory-dependent3, t…
…n brief, the interpretation we favor is that Zoroastrianism combines cosmogonic dualism and eschatological monotheism in a manner unique to itself among the major religions of the world. This combination results in a religious outlook which cannot be categorized as either straigh…
…radigms in their historical and socio-cultural contexts, those of the substance dualism (resp. mentalism) in sections II-III, on the one hand, and of the naturalistic monism in the section IV, on the other. Relying on the results of this investigation I will propose a general sur…
…ll for sociologist to be Indian first and sociologist only later. Rejecting this dualism, I ask if there is a possibility for a sociologist to be other 100 than Indian first. In concluding section, I discuss the link between symbolic violence of sociology manifest in the othering o…
…lf.’ (Plato, The Statesman 259 e, quoted in Holst 2017) In this short quote two dualism are installed. Firstly, the dualism between mental knowledge and manual labor; secondly, the dualism between those who are commanding and those who are commanded. To some extent Aristotle’s du…
… and the life/death binary, grounded in Western philo- sophical and theological dualisms, to the critical analyses of the ways in which misogyny, trans- and queerphobia lead to ‘social death’, and how violence towards non-normative individuals strives to mark their lives and deat…
…y, we come to be confronted by a consumer democracy. There are three archetypal dualisms which capture the ethos of infantilism, argues Barber: easy over hard, simple over complex, fast over slow. Such infantilism defines the libertarian freedom which dominates the age – a concep…
…an and Hungarian legal systems and administrative arrangements, so-called legal dualism was thus taken over into the Czechoslovak State. Czechoslovak law thus consisted of two legal systems – Austrian – Cisleithanian, and Hungarian – Transleithanian. After the annexation of the H…
…on psychoanalytic and practiced pedagogies that aim to transgress the mind-body dualism and hierarchy, in particular Roberto Freire’s work on Somatherapy * This paper was presented at the Media Discourse Seminar Series at DeMontfort University on 5th March 2014, at the University…
…etition compulsion, which involves a disjunctive synthesis combining monism and dualism. While they admit that the life drive and the death drive are de facto always mixed, Deleuze and Guattari’s analytics of desire operates a difference of nature between the molecular desire whi…