Dualism
['djuːəlɪz(ə)m] or ['duəlɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
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Definition
(n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
(n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
(n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Manicheism, doctrine of two supreme principles (good and evil).
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Examples
- This division is a culmination of the dualism of mind and the world, soul and body, end and means, which we have so frequently noted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This separation is the root of the dualism of method and subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The argument for immortality seems to rest on the absolute dualism of soul and body. Plato. The Republic.
- Locke's statements fitted well into the dualism of his day. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Continuity versus Dualism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The separation, often touched upon, between subject matter and method is the educational equivalent of this dualism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This dualism is not characteristic (as were the others which we have noted) of Greek thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Another dualism is that of activity and passivity in knowing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latter assumes continuity; the former state or imply certain basic divisions, separations, or antitheses, technically called dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Since morality is concerned with conduct, any dualisms which are set up between mind and activity must reflect themselves in the theory of morals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Upon the philosophical side, these various dualisms culminate in a sharp demarcation of individual minds from the world, and hence from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This scheme denotes, of course, simply a perpetuation of the older social division, with its counterpart intellectual and moral dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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