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
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
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
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
The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate
The idea that issues can always be divided into either/or states, e g mind/matter, fact/value, right/wrong A throwback to pre-complexity viewpoints and earlier bivalent logic and systemic valuation, replaced mostly in complex systems approaches by non-dualist (continuum) modes of thought that take into account the wider connectivity issues and balancing multiple objectives
The belief that there are two fundamental kinds of stuff in the universe, mind and matter (see monism) The classic problem for dualists is that of interaction: if matter and mind are really so fundamentally different, how could they possibly interact and influence each other? how could we mentally perceive the physical world, and how could our mental wills have an effect on our physical body parts(as when I lift my arm)?
Philosophical belief that reality is essentially divided into two distinct kinds of stuff Typically mind and body or the related pair, spirit and matter One concept in each pair is often deemed superior to the other See Patriarchal dualism in the Ecofeminism section
In it's theological meaning, Dualism is the theory that there are two independent and opposing forces (God and the Devil) in continual conflict, and that the outcome of that conflict is not decided until the end This theory is considered heresy by some because it denies the Omniscience and Sovereignty of God, over all things [back]
A belief in--and often the affirmation of an ultimate tension between--two separate classes of phenomena: spirit and matter Dualism is often contrasted with, on the one hand, idealism (only mind or spirit), and, on the other hand, materialism (only body or matter) Christians--and Western philosophy throughout much of its history--have preferred to speak of the "mind-body problem" (see entry), because both materialism and a Gnostic idealism are unacceptable, and because dualism generally inclines over time to idealism, continually elevating spirit over matter
Most generally, the view that reality consists of two disparate parts In philosophy of mind, the belief that the mental and physical are deeply different in kind: thus the mental is at least not identical with the physical See occasionalism, doctrine of preestablished harmony, substance dualism, property dualism, Cartesian interactionist dualism, mind-body problem, monism <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
the view that each person is two entities, a mind with mental attributes and a body with physical attributes, instead of a single entity with attributes of both sorts
Dualism is the state of having two main parts or aspects, or the belief that something has two main parts or aspects. the Gnostic dualism of good and evil struggling for supremacy. the idea that there are two opposite parts or principles in everything, for example body and soul, or the state of having two parts or principles. In philosophy, any pair of irreducible, mutually heterogeneous principles used to analyze the nature and origins of knowledge (epistemological dualism) or to explain all of reality or some broad aspect of it (metaphysical dualism); also, any theory that employs dualisms. Examples of epistemological dualisms are subject and object and sensation and sensibilia; examples of metaphysical dualisms are mind and matter, good and evil, and God and world. Dualism is distinguished from monism and pluralism