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dualism Definition

du·al·ism (--iz′əm)

noun

  1. the state of being dual; duality
  2. Philos. the theory that the world is ultimately composed of, or explicable in terms of, two basic entities, as mind and matter
  3. Theol.
    1. the doctrine that there are two mutually antagonistic principles in the universe, good and evil
    2. the doctrine that man has two natures, physical and spiritual

dualism Related Forms
du′·al·ist (--ist) noun
dualism Synonyms

dualism

n.

duality, doubleness, duplexity, twofoldness, biformity, polarity; see also pair.

dualism Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • mind: Cartesian dualism of mind and matter sealed in two mutually exclusive boxes is one of the causes of the crisis of our time.
  • body: The goal of philosophy is not knowledge but understanding ' Wittgenstein's philosophy is a reaction against the Cartesian dualism of the mind body.
  • kind: It is only with reluctance that man's desire for knowledge endures a dualism of this kind.

Converse of object

  • transcend: Lately a number of researchers have suggested approaches which help to transcend such dualism.
  • reject: The Structure of Social Theory promotes a hermeneutic sociology which rejects this dualism.
  • overcome: To escape this problem, the article turns to Hegel's dialectic in order to overcome the subject/object dualism implied in economic approaches.
  • avoid: For anyone who wants to avoid dualism the interesting question is this.
  • have: Compassionate Conservatism It is easy to have a neat dualism between head and heart, efficiency and compassion, or Conservative and Labor.
  • call: René Descartes popularized this view, which is sometimes called Cartesian interactionist dualism.

Adjective modifier

  • Cartesian: Such a scheme builds conscious subjectivity into the universe in a more integral way than Cartesian dualism seems to do.
  • ontological: The strength of dualism has been its organizational duality, the strength of materialism its rejection of ontological dualism.
  • fundamental: But both speak in terms of such a fundamental dualism.
  • false: It opposes false dualism [ see notes on What is a Sacrament?
  • traditional: The view is out of sight of traditional dualism.
  • such: Yet, strictly speaking, such dualisms are impossible.

Noun used with modifier

  • mind-body: The mind-body dualism operates in order to develop awareness.
  • mind/body: Particularly strong is her critique of the mind/body dualism that pervades the cyborg imagery.
  • substance: As he had in Freedom and Nature, he continued to reject any form of substance dualism.
  • body: Mind - body dualism operates in order to develop awareness.
  • body-soul: Advances in genetics and in mapping DNA, some say, show there is no need for the hypothesis of body-soul dualism.
dualism Quotes

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

—Dewey,John