Dualism

Unpacking Essentialism Essentialism, at the most basic level, is the idea that things have essences that are unique to them and therefore can be defined. Essentialism, then, has been approached from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, biology, and psychology to discern the essence of various facets of identity to understand what makes us intrinsically human. However, in this massive philosophical quest to understand humanity, essentialism has also been tasked with understanding…

In chapters eleven and twelve of Yuval Noah Harari 's Sapiens, the author begins to discuss the world and all of its different cultures coming together. With the increase in trade, regions begin to vie for power through the creation of empires. These empires begin to control and dominate large areas of land. The domination of these regions increases the empire influence on trading as well as culture. As regions are conquered and new cultures are assimilated into their conqueror 's society, their…

Feminist Ethics challenges us to revise, reformulate and rethink traditional ethics to the extent it devaluates women 's moral interpretations. Among other feminist thinkers that will be discussed in this essay, Alison Jaggar faults traditional ethics for letting women down in many ways. Significantly it shows less concern for women 's as opposed to men 's issues and interests and overvalues culturally masculine attributes such as hierarchy, domination and transcendence. Whilst undervalues…

was an unextended substance-less entity, possessed only by humans. The body, however, had substance and extension, it was restrained and functioned by virtue of mechanical principles. The existence of the two entities produced Descartes mind-body dualism, which he further distinguished by separating psychology and physics into the Galilean system secondary qualities of sensation that dwelled in the mind and the spatially extended body that moved thought the real world. The two could influence…

about stories as becoming which i was focusing in this article on Whitehead, whose philosophy of organism has offered insights in how we can interrogate long-held audaciousness about the world and our ways of thinking about it. Beyond a range of dualism, such as objects, subjects, facts, values, individuals, society, experience and structure that are still universal in social…

ethical world-views and how one makes choices about the meaning of life, and one's responsibilities and values (p.420). Perry has divided his analysis on how college student gain knowledge into 9 position further grouped into 4 stages. First stage is Dualism which is the belief every problem is solvable and students are to learn the right answers which one must obey authorities such as teachers. The second stage is multiplicity, which is two types of problems: solvable and problems which…

better, whenever I’m nervous or scared, I pray for a release from anxiety or distress from God. Our consciousness may prove that God really exists. People’s inability to understand consciousness may have given rise to the Cartesian dualism (Sturgeon, 22). This Cartesian dualism explains the mental and material fundamentals. Theistic philosophers have taken these fundamentals to the next level. They have come up with an existence that is distinct from the physical world that is known as God. I…

Peasant life in a nutshell: Bulgaria; little is just The movie is like a small train journey through a small town on a sunny warm (but not hot) day in end of September. You don't know the place. You could be in Turkey, or in Croatia or in Hungary. You have anticipations, expectations, excitements, and a little fear. While watching the documentary I was establishing mixed feelings of joy and fear, relaxation and uneasiness. It's something close to a feeling of being an outsider on a journey;…

psychological weapon aimed at destroying the will to resist, [they] are just as lethal,” as they instill fear and propagate the discourse of “us” vs. “them” (Capra, 1997, p. 328). The discourse of “good” vs. “evil” and “us” vs. “them” is called Manichean Dualism, and it is used by state and non-state actors to push forth agendas (Rose-Redwood, Geopolitical Codes, 2015). The psychological effects of media are vast, and contribute to building the strength of organizations we are taught to fear.…

shadows against a backdrop of apocalyptic change. Also it suggests that over the root is removed; life is bereft of the binding force given way to new possibilities. “Roots and Shadows can be analyzed as a novel of the synthesis of dualism of tradition…