Dualism
"Mind-Body Dualism in the current philosophical understanding of the term originates from one man, the seventeenth century French philosopher Rene Descartes. It was Descartes who gave the world that much quoted utterance "I think, therefore I am". He was also the one who popularised the idea of reality as a dichotomy of matter (extended or spatial substance) and spirit (thinking substance, including God). This form of mind-body dualism became known as "Cartesian Dualism", after the Latin pronunciation of Descartes (Cartes). (from the Kheper web site, on Rene Descartes)
Ancient Chinese held that yin and yang were the central explanation of the universe as typified by the male and female sexes of nature's creations. Later the church, after wrestling for centuries over the God - Devil dichotomy of their faith, proclaimed dualism to be a heresy, and that God was supreme, and that the dark side was a symbol of his, the extent of his greatness and power. This leads to a God with both male and female attributes, and an absolute meaning of dualism. In this context Emmanuel Kant struggled to employ dualism into a universal theory of philosophy, phenomena and nonumena, losing most of his readers in the process. I suppose it can be done. And people will try.
Meanwhile we have to struggle with up or down votes; Tories vs. Labor, Conservatives and Liberals, appearance and reality, body and mind, practical reason and desire, reason and faith. But in all truth "In God we Trust, all others pay cash."
posted by James E. Opfell @ 6:15 PM
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