dualism


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  1. I am sure that all of you are aware of the concept of dualism. So, what's your views on dualism? Are you a dualist or a non-dualist? Personally, I am a non-dualist. I cannot accept that perfect good or perfect evil exists. To me it seems like a fairytale.
  2. If you're referring to the philosophical term, no, I'm not. I reject all that Platonic bullshit about there being our world and the world of ''ideas'', and everything that promotes a spiritual world/force beyond ours. Also, thinking that the human mind is something separate from our physical world is retarded.
  3. Yeah, I refer to the philosophical term. However, the term is not restrained in theory. It is appliable to our everyday life (especially in the religious and political aspect of it).
  4. There are different uses of 'dualism' in philosophy. One of them is Platonic realism, according to which the dual poles are the forms and the world of matter. More often, 'dualism' now refers to mind/body dualism, which distinguishes between mind or soul and body. This is substance dualism, but there is also a property dualism. The best known is Cartesian substance dualism, but most dualists today are property dualists. I imagine there are other meanings of 'dualism,' too, but these are the most common.

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