Dualism

 

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Dualism Arguments: Pros & Cons
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Perhaps passionate responses correlate to one's sense of self worth.

We have been asked to consider the dualism that is evident in our texts

Defintions

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/
In theology, for example a ‘dualist’ is someone who believes that Good and Evil—or God and the Devil—are independent and more or less equal forces in the world

 In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical—or mind and body or mind and brain—are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality#Philosophy.2C_logic.2C_and_psychology
Philosophy, logic, and psychology

• Dualism, a twofold division in several spiritual, religious, and philosophical doctrines
• Dualism (philosophy of mind), where the body and mind are considered to be irreducibly distinct
• De Morgan's Laws, specifically the ability to generate the dual of any logical expression.

STARHAWKS comments on Dualism

" The Great Man story is always intertwined with dualism; woman must be devalued in order for the Great man to be so elevated." (Dreaming the Dark, 22)

success/failure
making it/the fall
saved/damned

In the story the person with value loses it and the person who lacks value gains it. Both reinforce a consciousness and a power structure in which some people have value and others don't. (Dreaming the Dark, 23)

We strive (Faust) to make it, looking for personal salvation instead of challenging the consciousness that devalues what we already are. (Dreaming the Dark, 23)

Those who don't make it are left with a sense of failure. Individual inadequacy

Garden of Eden = American Dream; we are denied entrance due to our own flaws ans shortcomings.
supports individualistic ethic; breeds isolation. is the story of estrangement

miserable (adjective) is a feeling (Dreaming the Dark, 24)

language conveys metaphors; these metaphors, the images we use, shape our thoughts and our actions. |the thought-forms of estrangement become bound into our language as metaphors that reinforce the constricting patterns in our minds. (Dreaming the Dark, 25)

enlightenment (noun) is a metaphor that skewer us firmly back into the story of duality; it negates the dark, the earth, the body, (...) the dark womb, the night. (Dreaming the Dark, 25)

enlightenment vs.  deepening
the underworld

(Dreaming the Dark, 27)
a snake shedding skin, could represent renewal vs. the fall
see it differently;  the woman and tree and fruit offer shade, nurturing and comfort.
Things reveal in their forms in their movements , the process that shaped them; call it immanence (Polytheistic)
abstract reasoning favoured over thinking abstractly, to experience concretely.

(Dreaming the Dark, 28)
things, feelings, images embody energy.
not separate from matter

(Dreaming the Dark, 35)
integrity; recognize choices and consequences of choices; consequences not from external force.
ethics of integrity are choices based on internal consistency and inherent consequences based on  ordering principles inherent in nature not chaotic nature.

everyone has a direct line to truth. (Dreaming the Dark, 36)
(Dreaming the Dark, 37)
integrity; being an integral and inseparable part of the human and biological community
Domination over others is can not be justified
Manipulation through fear, guilt, blame is unethical. as is coercion (41)

(Dreaming the Dark, 40)
life and eath are in balance.
death is a source of power from within
we have an active will that must be balanced with wills of others.

(Dreaming the Dark, 41)
To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice (De Las Casas)
Honoring the inherent value of self also means placing a high value on human needs and emotions.
fear, anger and pain are valued, necessary for integration and carriers of power-from-within

(Dreaming the Dark, 43)
Evil is a concept that can not be separated from story of duality
uncertainty principle
randomness

(Dreaming the Dark, 44)
Immanent justice = recognizing that all things are interconnected
The ethic of immanent justice is LOVE