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Dualism (Indian philosophy)

Overview

belief held by certain schools of Indian philosophy that reality is fundamentally composed of two parts

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  1. There is, on one side, a body of truth, ready-made, and, on the other, a ready-made mind equipped with a faculty of knowing--if it only wills to exercise it, which it is often strangely loath to do. The separation, often touched upon, between subject matter and method is the educational equivalent of this dualism. Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that…

    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

    States what Dualism is; names Dualism several times.

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  2. Descartes had separated the individual from the universal. His philosophy began and ended with a dualism. I have just said that the problem of philosophy is the unity of experience.

    John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

    States what Dualism is; names Dualism several times.

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  3. Although, then, Philosophy can be divided only into two main parts, the theoretical and the practical, and although all that we may be able to say of the special principles of Judgement must be counted as belonging in it to the theoretical part, _i.e._ to rational cognition in accordance with natural concepts; yet the Critique of pure Reason, which must decide all this, as regards the possibility of the system…

    Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement

    States what Dualism is.

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Philosophers who discussed Dualism (Indian philosophy)

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Place in the tradition

Part of Acosmism.

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