Catholic Word of the Day: DUALISM, 05-23-15

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DUALISM

 

Any view of reality that holds there are two fundamentally and irreducibly different types of being or operations. Thus God and the world, spirit and matter, intellect and will, truth and error , virtue and sin are typical expressions of dualism. (Etym. Latin dualis; from duo, two.)

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Good and evil

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intellect and will?

[TBP]

As opposed to monism, the belief that it’s one. Spiritual monists say that there is only one thing and it is God, that there is not God and, merely God as.

[Grateful2God]

My intellect isn't what it used to be, LOL, but as far as I remember, the intellect helps us to grasp the world around us, and also makes us the only living things that are capable of knowing and pondering their own existence. The will is how we react to that knowledge, taking also into consideration our own "appetites" or internal desires.

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Do people often know something is wrong — but still go ahead and do it?

Intellect — knowing that it is wrong

Will — still going ahead and doing it.

[Talisker]

As opposed to monism, the belief that it’s one. Spiritual monists say that there is only one thing and it is God, that there is not God and, merely God as.

LOL, not exactly. Monists merely ask how anything that is NOT an aspect of the infinitude of God can exist without, by its existence, denying the totality of that infinitude, by definition.

[TBP]

Monism is the belief that there is only one thing. Mono — one.

And yes, I described it correctly. if you’re a spiritual or religious monist, nothing can exist outside of the Infinite (God) — thus there is only one thing and it is God.

For God to be Omnipotent and Omniscient, it would be necessary for god to be Infinite — without boundaries in time or space. Otherwise, there would be someplace to get out of God’s sight and away from God’s power.

If that is true, it is simply not possible for anything to be “outside” God, or “Not an aspect of the Infinitude of God.” Thus, there is not God and, merely God as.

“God as me, in me, is me.”

[Talisker]

You did indeed describe it correctly from the point of belief. It’s just that it’s usually developed from the opposite direction, ie, “how could it not be”?