Word: dualism
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...Ironman” has profoundly affected the sound and image of underground rap. This album, however, is about as well-conceived a collaboration as “The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons;” because the two components are so similar, such a hyped-up dualism comes off as both basely exploitative and shamefully derivative.Those of us who were hoping for a Killa Bee resurrection will be sorely disappointed. After all the missteps, stabs at commercial success, and the absence of a unified production, present-day Wu-Tang sounds dilated, sluggish, and, worst of all, irrelevant. Regrettably, this album...
...that is why he was killed by the Roman method of crucifixion. The elaborate maze of contradictory theories, doctrines and dogmas formulated centuries later takes up the ancient pagan themes of blood sacrifice as ransom paid to gods who humans felt had been offended. Today, instead of the dualism of a good-vs.-evil world, we need a different perspective and myth to define human error and sin. Roger Payne London...
...This dualism is something for which Amato, with his academic and political background, was very well-prepared...
...frustrated by your easy dismissal of French philosopher Rene Descartes's theory of mind-body dualism. This brilliant man did not contend that the mind had no influence on the body, or the body on the mind. In letters to friends who were ill, he urged them to keep objects that they liked around them to raise their spirits. His argument held that the mind was simply a different substance from the body. Even as scientists identify the various electronic and chemical signals of the brain, they cannot say with certainty how the signals function. Descartes's theory...
Rene Descartes, the great 17th century French mathematician and philosopher, enshrined this metaphysical divide in what came to be known in Western philosophy as mind-body dualism. Many Eastern mystical traditions, contemplating the same inner space, have come to the opposite conclusion. They teach that the mind and body belong to an indivisible continuum...