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Article: Dualism
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Dualism
This term
dualism
is used to describe any system in which there are two realities. The term is sometimes used to express the existence of two gods or the existence of God and the cosmos, but its most common usage is in the philosophy of human nature. A dualist holds that a human person is constituted by a body and what may be called a mind or soul or consciousness. Some dualists hold that persons are nonphysical concrete subjects who are embodied contingently. That is, a person may survive the destruction of his or her body, or one's body may continue to exist (as a corpse) after one has ceased to be. The greatest competing philosophy of human nature is
materialism.
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Encyclopedia entry: dualism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
401 words
...dualism any philosophical system that seeks to ... Plato 's philosophy there is an ultimate dualism of being and becoming, of ideas and matter ... ideas, but he was unable to escape the dualism of form and matter, and in modern metaphysics ...
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