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dualism
n.
state of consisting of two parts, duality, doubleness; belief that mind and matter exist separately (Philosophy); belief that good and evil are embodied in two separate divine beings or principles (Theology)
Dualism
Dualism (from the
Latin word
duo meaning "two") denotes the state of two parts. The term 'dualism' was originally coined to denote co-eternal
binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in
metaphysical and
philosophical duality discourse but has been more generalized in other usages to indicate a system which contains two essential parts.
dualism
Noun
1. the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
(hypernym) doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
Dualism
(n.)
The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
(n.)
The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
(n.)
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
(n.)
A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
(n.)
A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Dualism
Dualism In theology, the doctrine that there are two independent and opposing deific powers conjointly ruling the universe as, for instance, in the Zoroastrian system when it teaches that Ormazd and Ahriman, the good and evil deities, divide between them the supremacy. It is opposed to monotheism, but not necessarily to polytheism. In philosophy, the doctrine that there are two fundamental principles underlying all manifestation, such as spirit and matter, force and matter, mind and matter and in a more extended sense good and evil, high and low, black and white; in fact the doctrine has its origin in the so-called pairs of opposites in nature. Here, it is opposed to monism but not necessarily to pluralism. These oppositions of ideas in both theology and philosophy are often quite unnecessary, and rise from the tendency of the mind to keep conceptions in rigidly thought-tight compartments, without that intermingling of principle to principle, based on a fundamental unity, which is demonstrated to be true by all we know of even physical nature.
Theosophy teaches that unity and duality, with their development as plurality in manifestation, subsist throughout the universe, every duality being comprised in a unity existing on a higher plane of being than its dual manifestation -- and the duality reproducing itself in the webwork of pluralities composing the manifested universe.
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