The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit
the idea that humans are made of two parts These two parts are matter, or the body, and spirit, or the mind
A theory of ontology which claims that the mind and the body exist independently of one another and have entirely different essences or natures
There are two kinds of things (my way and your way, mind and body, ying and yang)
In theology, the concept that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, i e , good and bad, God and Satan In Philosophy the idea that the world consists of two main components: thought and matter
Idea that the world is made up of the material and the spiritual, with the material forming the basis for evil
the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
the theory that reality is composed of twit different substances so that neither one can be related to the other - thus: spirit/matter, mind/holy, good/evil
The idea that man and the universe are both composed principally of two differing properties, body and spirit Almost all dualists see the body and material things as inferior to what they consider "spirit " Dualism is an ancient pagan heresy that deeply infected the church Many ancient Greek philosophers were dualistic They found the body and human history distasteful, and longed for death as an escape to the world of the ideal, i e , the spirit Thus, ancient dualists found the Biblical doctrine of the resurrection laughable (Ac 17: 32) Today's "Christian" dualists usually look only for escape from this life in the form of some sort of "spiritual" monastic retreat, a "pre-tribulational rapture," or death
Time-honored philosophical position which is exemplified by: Pre-Socratics' appearance/reality distinction Plato's forms/world distinction Hume's fact/value distinction Kant's empirical phenomena/transcendental noumena distinction Heidegger's being/time distinction Russell's existence/subsistence distinction Descartes mind/matter distinction
An ontological view which asserts that there are only two ultimately real kinds of thing in the universe (typically mind and body)
The philosophical view that mental events need not be associated with neural events See materialism The philosophical view that mental events need not be associated with neural events See materialism
{i} state of consisting of two parts, duality, doubleness; belief that mind and matter exist separately (Philosophy); belief that good and evil are embodied in two separate divine beings or principles (Theology)
Any philosophical theory holding that the universe consists of, or can only be explained by, two independent and separate constituents or substances; according to Cartesian dualism, these are mind (thinking substance) & body (extended substance) Contrast: monism Compare: pluralism