development‚ Andrew Gunder Frank has tried to illustrate the history of the development‚ underdevelopment‚ and the evolution of dependency to a world system theory. Finally he has come up with some alternatives and has tried to elaborate the new dualism and the recent movements in the world. According to Frank‚ development thinking emerged as an instrument of post war American hegemony and has defined it as the child of neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism which was the strategy of U.S. to hegemonies
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the mind or body problem that was exhibited by Piccard in the synopsis from Star Trek: The Next Generation was the Dualism view. Picard stated that‚ “Data has rights among them the right to refuse to undergo an experimental procedure such as this.” Here‚ Picard ascribes both physical and mental attributes to the robot (Data). This view correlates to Hasker (1983) statement that‚ “Dualism begins by taking quite seriously the fact that human beings have both physical properties and mental properties…”
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a single system. In western cultures‚ the mind is somewhere in the head and that everything else is body. This dualism can be traced back to Descartes and his writings. This dualism can even be seen in the way health insurance is treated in the United States. Most insurance policies provide much better coverage for "physical" disorders than they do for "mental" disorders. No such dualism ever existed in eastern cultures‚ and the mind and body are seen as intricately connected and unified. For
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www.ecofem.org/journal IN THE SHADOW OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM MOTHER EARTH TO FATHERLAND by Maria Soledad Iriart CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. INTRODUCTION ECOFEMINISM THE DEATH OF NATURE AND THE RISE OF SCIENCE THE MASCULINE RE-BIRTH OF HUMANS AND RATIONALISM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. INTRODUCTION This dissertation examines some ecofeminist critiques of modern conceptions of nature. It focuses on the re-evaluation of the nature conception within western thought‚ following the emergence of
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religion. Monotheistic means belief in one deity‚ in this case it is Ahura Mazda‚ who Zoroaster put above all other deities worshipped by the earlier Iranians (Fisher 244). However‚ Zoroaster’s teachings instilled the theory ongoing dualism in Zoroastrianism. This dualism is caused by the ongoing struggle between good and evil. Zoroaster preached that what caused the making of good and evil was a “meeting” between two spirits‚ each given the choice of “life or not life‚” one chose life the other did
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Descartes famously a rationalist believed that true knowledge about the world comes from reason and without experience. Descartes initiated his claim about the self by doubting. He doubted everything‚ including his own existence‚ and that doubt itself is the only certainty. Accordingly‚ he assumed that his thoughts were the only thing not to be doubted. The answer to his existence was his cogito argument‚ “I think‚ therefore I am”; ‘cogito ergo sum’. This means that the existence of a thinking substance
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is the one that explains his understanding of the dualism argument. The term ‘dualism’ has a variety of uses in the history of thought. In general‚ the idea is that‚ for some particular domain‚ there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. In the philosophy of mind‚ dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical or mind and body are‚ in some sense‚ radically different kinds of thing. The main discussion about dualism tends to start from the assumption of the reality
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of our ever-present wonder‚ philosophers have theorized over the course of many centuries about the nature of the human experience – during the 17th century‚ the Age of Reason brought about Rene Descartes’ concepts of innate knowledge‚ mind/body dualism‚ and theories of consciousness as a byproduct of the mind. These ideas transformed the face of philosophy and solidified Descartes as the venerable “Father of Philosophy” until John Locke’s progressive concepts
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Hitchcock and Dualism in Psycho The characters in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) each have a dual nature that is masterfully portrayed through character development and use of mirrors throughout the film. The very first shot in Psycho is zooming in from an open view of the city where it is a bright and sunny day. As the shot zooms in further and further it comes into a dark and shaded room that shows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) having an affair in a undisclosed hotel
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provides versus the damage that it can cause to others along the way. 2. Is Sidgwick’s Dualism really a middle ground between Ethical Egoism and Utilitarianism. Sidgwick’s Dualism of the practical reason is the idea that since egoism and utilitarianism aim both to have rational supremacy in our practical decisions‚ whenever they conflict there is no stronger reason to follow the dictates of either view. The dualism leaves us with a practical problem:
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