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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"dualism"”.
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Wilhelm Heinse's Dualism
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"Schoenberg, Dualism, And ""moses Und Aron"""
Schoenberg's work has been extensively analyzed from the standpoint of dodecaphonic structure. The present study attempts to elaborate an understanding of Schoenberg's work by examining primary influential social and historical factors in their relation to his musical thought. Establishing a …
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Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture
This thesis analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in Western culture in the Classical period in order to examine dualist modes of representation in the history of Western portraiture. Dualism - or the separation of soul and body - takes the form in portraiture of the representation of the …
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Dualism of Iranian Homosexuality. A way to dialogue
Þessi ritgerð er um samkynhneigð í Mið-Austurlöndum almennt en með áherslu á Íslamska Lýðveldið Íran. Tilgangur þessarar ritgerðar er að sýna raunheim samkynhneigðra manna í Íran byggðan á eigin reynslu með viðtölum og vettvangrannsóknum í höfuðborginni Teheran 2011 sem afhjúpaði stóran undirheim …
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Theological Dualism in the Poetry of George Herbert.
<p>Theological dualism is a primary element in George Herbert's poetry. Poems such as "The Flower," "Affliction I," "Affliction V," "The Banquet" and "Love III" illustrate the necessary tension inherent in the polarity of theological dualism. Abstractions such as joy, grief, pleasure, pain, birth, …
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DUALISM VS. MATERIALISM; TWO INADEQUATE PICTURES OF HUMAN NATURE
… nature. Of the two views vying for prominence (dualism vs. materialism) neither is indubitable, nevertheless their are faithful proponents on each side. In a debate of belief vs. theory we see these seemingly disparate realms come together in a resignation to faith that their option is an …
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Islam and the West : Problematizing a Discourse of Dualism
… the language that both sides of this perceived dualism use to represent themselves and the other, it will be demonstrated that the perceived conflicting relationship between Islam and "the West" results, in part, from the linguistic practices that each side deploys.
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Sidgwick, Common Sense, and the Dualism of Practical Reason
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World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives
<p>Stories of place matter to the way we live with the Earth. A dualistic perspective that pits "culture" against "nature" enables environmental degradation on small and large scales. Conversely, understanding humans and nonhumans as entwined allows us to think and act differently with our …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… studies to critique the problem of digital dualism haunting notions of the "virtual" in the discourse of contemporary virtual reality technologies (VR). Digital dualism is the idea that digital or "virtual" worlds are fundamentally distinct from the "real" or physical world. Digital dualism …
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"Traitorous Bodies": Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E.L. James
… Applying René Descartes’s theory of mind/body dualism to the heroines in Susan Johnson’s Seized by Love and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey reveals not only a separation between the heroines’ minds and bodies, but proves that both heroines are depicted as distinctly body. As such, serious …
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The Knowledge Argument and Howard Robinson’s 2016 case for Dualism and Mental Substance
… arguments are then considered for Mind Body Dualism from Howard Robinson (2016), covering topics of scientific reduction and supervenience. I object to Robinson’s arguments for the mind dependence of various entities.
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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism
<p>Gilbert Ryle once ridiculed substance dualism, describing it as the view that we are a "ghost in the machine." Since that time, substance dualism has found few defenders, and a presumption toward naturalism has dominated philosophical inquiry. Here, I offer an unapologetic defense this …
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SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM
<p>This thesis investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s …
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From crisis to war: prophetic dualism in President George W. Bush's September 20, 2001 address
… study contrasts metaphor clusters to "prophetic dualism," a worldview that defines foreign policy within the context of a specific set of moral beliefs, and concludes that the artifact meets all tenets of prophetic dualism as well as the core characteristics of presidential crisis rhetoric and …
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The Waning of Victorian Imperialism: Stylistic Dualism in Gustav Holst's One-Act Opera Sāvitri (1908-9)
Gustav Holst's one-act opera Sāvitri (1908-9) represents a turning point in his compositional style, which came at a significant time in British history. Holst combines a simpler style informed by his work with English folksong with the Wagnerian style that permeated his earlier compositions. …
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… focus on the metaphysical issue of mind-body dualism while the fourth chapter addresses closely related metaethical issues regarding the nature and origin of moral judgment.</p><p>Chapter One calls into question the truth of dualism and defends a version of psychoneural identity theory as the …
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Beyond the Dualism of Creature and Creator: A Hindu-Christian Theological Inquiry into the Distinctive Relation between the World and God
… oppositions between the world and God to a ‘non-dualism’ (a-dvaita) which means neither ‘one’ (i.e. God = world) nor ‘two’ (i.e. God + world). I develop her work and that of the earlier ‘Calcutta School’ by drawing explicit attention to the (Neo)Platonic themes in Aquinas which provide some of …
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Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem: Why the Twenty-First Century Still Needs Mental Substances
… that everything is ultimately mental. Substance dualism says that there are both material and mental things and that these are different substances. Through Baumgarten and Kant, Wolff’s trichotomy shaped the way later theorists approach the mind-body problem and the Wolffian positions retain a …
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