Essays about: "Dualism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 48 essays containing the word Dualism.

  1. 6. A Current Need for Continuity

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Nils Patrik Svensson; [2022]
    Keywords : agential realism; Karen Barad; new materialism; math; infinitesimals; complexity; quantum physics; Copenhagen interpretation; phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty; continuity; Rawls; binary;

    Abstract : Throughout these last few decades, phenomenology and modern physics have slowly started to approach each other in order to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective. In this thesis I aim to show an approach done with the help of Karen Barad's agential realism; a quantum interpretation enabling us to better understand and analyse our complex world, as well as our perception of it. READ MORE

  3. 7. The non-dual and interconnected nature of aesthetic judgments

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Josua Li; [2022]
    Keywords : Aesthetic judgment; Dualism; Non-dualism; Aesthetics; Zen; Buddhism; Dogen; Interconnectedness; Centrism; Enlightenment;

    Abstract : This thesis explores what an aesthetic judgment would be if we take existence to be non-duallyinterconnected. Interconnectedness and aesthetic judgment does not seem to be compatible becauseaesthetic judgment seems to depend on, at least, the dualism of the beautiful and the ugly and that ofsubject and object. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Human and the Creation in Relation to the Narrative of the Divine An Ecological Reading of the Letter to the Romans in Comparison with 4QInstruction

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Stina Tysk; [2021-01-28]
    Keywords : Romans; 4QInstruction; conceptual metaphors; figurative language; intertextuality; narratives; ecotheology; ecoethics;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to elaborate on an ecological reading of Romans in comparison to 4QInstruction. In a literary analysis, recognizing figurative language, intertextuality and conceptual metaphor theory, the underlying framings of a Divine Narrative in Romans and 4QInstruction is uncovered. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Miryam Bernadette Danielsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Life of Pi; anthropomorphism; zoomorphism; anthropophagy; cannibalism; ecocriticism; animal studies; human-animal dualism; Yann Martel; cartesian dualism; animal philosophy;

    Abstract : This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. READ MORE

  6. 10. Why the Exclusion Problem Still Seems Intractable for the Counterfactual Compatibilist

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Melina Tsapos; [2020]
    Keywords : Philosophy of mind; metaphysics; dualism; property dualism; compatibilism; counterfactual compatibilist; materialsim; physicalism; the exclusion problem; materialism; consciousness; supervenience; reductionism.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The exclusion problem has been a longstanding problem for the property dualist. The Compatibilist solution is to deny overdetermination, and thus they say we may preserve both mental and physical efficacy. However, in my paper I wish to show why the Compatibilist solution has not secured a materialist position. READ MORE