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Internal Vocabulary . The results of such experiments tend to support the the ory of mind over matter, so long ridiculed by modern science. "People are re-examining old concepts like mind-body dualism," says Dr. Bernard Engel of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Baltimore...
GREEN IS HONEST. It paints the student in the patchwork mix we all live. We hope we are against the war for better reasons than that we are scared, and we hope that we want sex for other reason than fucking itself. But there is a dualism of high values and a debased reality in a lot of what we do. Our response to this dual nature may take the radical form of blaming corporate power for the evil we live, but this is often self-deluding and hopelessly illogical. In one scene of Greetings, a man is selling...
Taking Trips. When Thieu emerged from last September's elections, he shared presidential powers with his volatile running mate, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. The result for a time was an intrigue-laden, awkward dualism that South Viet Nam's new constitution had not anticipated. The Communists' Tet offensive, Washington's decision to back Thieu and an accident that killed a host of Ky supporters finally pushed the Vice President into the background (TIME, June 21), and the President has quickly consolidated his position by a succession of shrewd maneuvers that have removed remaining Ky backers...
Rejecting Dualism. Moreover, theologians concede that modern skepticism about eternity is fully justified. Says the University of San Francisco's Jesuit Philosopher Francis J. Marien: "An afterlife that is viewed as an opiate, a kind of workmen's compensation for an ugly and painful existence, is bound to be unattractive." Stanford University's Protestant Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier believes that God and man are cheapened by the idea that good behavior can buy "a good berth in the afterlife." As for hell, Napier shares the growing consensus that perdition cannot be permanent. To condemn...
...Christian thinking begins by rejecting the Greek dualism of body and soul. The old idea of a soul that departs from the body at death "makes no sense at all," says Roman Catholic Theologian Peter Riga of California's St. Mary's College. "There is just man, man in God's image and likeness. Man in his totality was created and will be saved." Such theologians emphasize God's presence in the world. "God is the source of creativity and change and human selfhood," says Harvard's Harvey Cox. In sum, the process of salvation...