OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23176

dualism

Meanings (ES + gloss)
dualidad • dualismo
Duality; the condition of being double.
By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative
dualismo
The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.
dualismo
The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.
The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth centur…
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