What is remarkable in this conception is its dualistic character.
The dualistic conception arises slowly from a number of naïve analogies.
We may drop gladly the old dualistic philosophy, and we must drop it, though I doubt if it is so easy to drop the dualistic experience which created it.
The dualistic teaching of the early church fathers, with its severance of matter and spirit and its insistence on the ascetic ideal of life, had focussed on sexuality as the outstanding manifestation of fleshly desires.
Freud's analogy between the dualistic attitude toward the tabooed object and the ambivalence of the emotions.
There are certain psychological and physiological reasons for the persistence of this dualistic attitude in the very nature of the sex act itself.
From the data of the preceding chapter, it is clear that the early ages of human life there was a dualisticattitude toward woman.
Possible physiological explanation of this dualistic attitude of man toward woman found in a period before self-control had in some measure replaced social control, in the reaction of weakness and disgust following sex festivals.
We are now prepared to admit that throughout the ages there has existed a strongly dualistic or "ambivalent" feeling in the mind of man toward woman.
We have here the germ of the dualistic conception of man's constitution--the antagonism between spirit and body.
Roman Empire in the shape of Manichæism, a mixture of dualistic and Christian Gnostic conceptions.
In the great ancient religions, with the exception of Zoroastrianism, no dualistic scheme appears.
The story, for example, that has been told of a well-developed dualistic system of the Iroquois is based on a misconception.
On the moral side the record of dualistic schemes is in general good.
These facts warn us to treat with caution the vague statements of early travelers respecting dualistic views supposed to be held by tribes in North America and South America.
It sprang from a dualistic conception, the assumption of a relation of incompatibility or antagonism between God and the world--a feeling whose germ appears in savage life (in taboos and other forms).
A strictly dualistic system recognizes only two Powers in the world.
To certain thinkers of ancient times this dualistic conception presented difficulties--an absolute unity was held to be incompatible with such separation between the world and God.
The most remarkable application of the dualistic designs is, however, met with in Peru where, according to Wiener, the irrigation canals which carried water to the maize fields were laid out so as to form pattern bands like fig.
It is curious to note how closely the old soldier's description of these idols answers to that of the great dualistic statue which has been discussed in the preceding pages.
History has shown that no annexation, no territorial division, of the dualistic country could ever guarantee peace between France and Germany.
This change, beginning about 1860 and running through a period of nearly twenty years, has gradually supplanted the old electro-chemical dualistic theory and established the present system.
Hence they are also of great interest in philosophy; they show clearly that the monistic or mechanical view of the organism is the only correct one, and that the dualistic or teleological conception is wrong.
In these words Kant definitely adopts the dualistic and teleological point of view for biological science.
This dualistic system prevails in academic philosophy to-day--most of our philosophers still regarding these two provinces as totally distinct.
Fenced about with their transcendental and dualistic prejudices, they attack not only the monistic system we establish on our scientific knowledge, but even the plainest facts which go to form its foundation.
This was due to the dualistic system of Immanuel Kant, who taught a natural system of evolution as far as the inorganic world was concerned; but, on the whole, adopted a supernaturalist system as regards the origin of living things.
The prevalence of this unfortunate dualistic prejudice prevented the problem of the origin of species, and the connected question of the origin of man, from being regarded by the bulk of people as a scientific question at all until 1859.
Now, it is precisely because the dualistic distinction of the sciences does fail in this regard, that a further demand for a reflective transformation of the data arises.
In general, it may be said that the educational division finds a reflection in the dualistic philosophies.
These conceptions are consistent with the philosophy which sees intelligence to be the purposive reorganization, through action, of the material of experience; and they are inconsistent with each of the dualistic philosophies mentioned.
Every such social condition must be formulated in a dualistic philosophy, if philosophy is to be a sincere account of experience.
The cause of this procedure lies in following tradition, rather than in conscious adherence to a dualistic philosophy.
Sulphur trioxide (see under Sulphur); -- formerly so called on the dualistic theory of salts.
But ultimately all this rests on one and the same thing—the supernatural and dualistic hypothesis.
Christianity had from its very beginning a decidedly dualistic character.
It was the study of electro-chemical changes which led Berzelius to his electro-chemical theory of combination, and then to the dualistic theory, which has already been mentioned.
In the early days of electro-chemistry the products of electrolysis were studied in the light of the dualistic theory.
Electrical decompositions were dualistic in character, but the dualism was not that taught by Berzelius.
It ceases to be so, when they feel compelled to graft on their Monistic stock the Dualistic notions of Right and Wrong, Truth and Error.
In rejecting the dualistic conception of nature and the herewith connected amphitheistic conception of God, .
In opposition to the dualistic or teleological conception of nature, our theory considers organic as well as inorganic bodies to be the necessary products of natural forces.
And on page 33: "In the usual dualistic or teleological (vital) conception of the universe, organic nature is regarded as the purposely executed production of a Creator working according to a definite plan.
Furthermore, the faith in a personal Creator is called a low dualistic conception of God, which corresponds to a low animal stage of development of the human organism.
All those theories and points of view need such a spur and corrective, which are hastily satisfied with a dualistic or a still farther expanded limit of our knowledge.
The one set of species would therefore have originated by dualistic (teleological) creation, the other by monistic (mechanical) development.
No opponent of Agassiz could have refuted the dualistic conception of organic nature and its origin more strikingly than he himself has done by the intrinsic contradictions which present themselves everywhere in his theory.
In the usual dualistic or teleological (vital) conception of the universe, organic nature is regarded as the purposely executed production of a Creator working according to a definite plan.
This low dualisticconception of God corresponds with a low animal stage of development of the human organism.
In opposition to the dualistic or teleological conception of nature, our theory considers organic, as well as inorganic, bodies to be the necessary products of natural forces.
But still it has great value, being the only detailed attempt, adorned with scientific arguments, which an eminent naturalist of our day has made to found a teleological or dualistic history of creation.
Connection of the former with the Monistic (mechanical), of the latter with the Dualistic Conception of the Universe.
Finally, both agree (along with the dualisticcharacter of their whole conception of the world .
Monkish asceticism (so far as it goes beyond the struggle to live unstained under unnatural conditions) rests on a dualistic view of the world which does not belong to the essence of Mysticism.
For at bottom it rests upon that dualistic or rather acosmistic view of life which prevailed from the decay of the Roman Empire till the Renaissance and Reformation.
These doctrines show that Victorinus is involved in a dualistic view of matter, and in a form of predestinarianism; but he has no definite teaching on the relation of sin to the ideal world.
I shall leave cynical materialism entirely out of our discussion as not calling for treatment before this present audience, and I shall ignore old-fashioned dualistic theism for the same reason.
The first way was that of the older dualistic theism, with ourselves represented as a secondary order of substances created by God.
The monists themselves writhe like worms on the hook to escape pluralistic or at least dualistic language, but they cannot escape it.
His God is the ordinary dualistic God of Christianity, to whom his philosophy simply opens the door; he has nothing whatsoever in common with the 'absolute spirit' set up by his successors.
The dualistic hypothesis explained the phenomena only in part, and as the known facts increased in number it had to be abandoned.
His electro-chemical experiments led him to his dualistic theory of compounds, which interpreted each compound as made up of two parts--one positive, the other negative.
The importance of the adjustment was not realized, for it was obscured by the prevailing dualistic theory, but without it the deeper general relations of the atoms could not appear.
As a result of the universal yin-yang dualistic doctrines, immorality was leniently regarded.
This dualistic system, by a simple addition, became a monism, and at the same time furnished the Chinese with a cosmogony.
Early Cosmogony Dualistic The period before the appearance of the P'an Ku myth may be divided into two parts; that from some early unknown date up to about the middle of the Confucian epoch, say 500 B.
