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    Arguments Against Dualism

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    "Strengths And Weaknesses Of Dualism." Dualism focuses on dramatic difference between mind and the body. The argument against this theory is that mind is private and only the person of his own mind has access to it. Others can only observe behavior and take a guess about the content of the mind. Weakness of dualism lays in the lack of rational understanding about interaction between brain and mind. One can explain the interaction between mind and brain if they believe in supernatural dimensions

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    competitive drive toward the abundance of consumerism and materialism rules our society as a whole. Stepping back from our wants‚ our needs are much different then what we are striving for. In Tim Kasser’s eye opening book‚ The High Price of Materialism‚ the author takes a scientific and very modern approach to this world wide epidemic that is costing people their happiness. Kasser explains how people who value and put priority on materialism often have a greater risk of being unhappy and acquiring

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    reality of World War I. The scarcity of resources combined with stark images of the war influenced writers to condemn the aristocracy for their excessive self-indulgence. In DH Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” his hatred for the English people’s materialism is conveyed through the death of an innocent child. Without a doubt‚ DH Lawrence views England as a money-dominated society. In fact Koban states‚ “Lawrence hated money and warping of modern man that scrambling for money caused. But he knew that

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    Hinduism And Dualism

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    Like any religion‚ Hindu has people who practice and interpret the religion in different ways. There are two main beliefs when talking about the divine reality of God in Hindu. The first is Monistic and dualistic. Monism is that reality is tied together. Dualistic is the opposite in that there is a distinction between God and reality and as a result God can be worshiped. The majority of people of follow Hinduism view God as dualistic. Monistic Hindus use the term Brahman to describe their supreme

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    Christians Anthropological Dualism and Materialism/Physicalism‚ finding the positive and negative aspects of both viewpoints. Christian Dualism is the true anthropological viewpoint available‚ and this paper will bring out the common pitfalls of materialism. This subject is important in today’s society because many atheists do not believe in life after death‚ affirming that there is nothing in the world apart from the physical body despite the abundance of evidence present. Materialism‚ while it does have

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    In the oxford English dictionary materialism is described as a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. This theory is far more than a simple focus on material possessions. It states that everything in the universe is matter‚ without any true spiritual or intellectual existence. We live in a world surrounded by and composed of matter. It is natural; therefore‚ that we may become distracted from spiritual or intellectual pursuits by material

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    Dualism of Culture and Personality In the modern age‚ many anthropological studies of personality in primitive cultures have shown intimate relation of personality and culture. These studies have shown that man is far more cultural being than imagined by the psychologists. In this connection‚ the discoveries by Ruth Benedict‚ Ralph Linton‚ and Abram Kardiner are notable. The anthropologists found that in every culture‚ there is a basic personality type which is an outcome of culture influences on

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    Mary Oliver Dualism

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    questioning the hierarchies and dualisms underpinning Western cultures. Mary Oliver’s poems that explore nature can also be read as political as they question the dualisms and hierarchies that form strong foundations in Western cultures. Through the emergence of the patriarchy (a Western ideology) over 5000 years ago‚ traditional epistemological paradigms of Western society have been based on dualisms. Through patriarchal ideology the world is ordered into dualisms‚ or opposed pairs of concepts

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    thing. Thus‚ there have been several eliminativists about different aspects of human nature in the history of philosophy. Hard determinists deny free will and so they are eliminativists regarding free will. Nevertheless‚ contemporary eliminative materialism consists of two main ideas. The first is that folk psychology is a theory‚ and the second is there is a difference between elimination and reduction. When a new theory in science is adopted‚ the entities posited by the old theory—the theory’s

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    characterized by what‚ at the time‚ was controversial thinking is exactly what Descartes was known for. His "out of the box" thinking not only raised eyebrows‚ but it also brought a lot to the table. One of his most discussed ideas was that of substance dualism. In this theory‚ Descartes describes the mind an body as two separate substances. But to completely understand exactly what Descartes means by this‚ one of his other‚ more renowned theories must be explained first. One of Descartes ’ first ideas

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