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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:16 pm
"When we have attain that by means of the speaking or reasoning art, then, besouled by a cherub's spirit... two natures are planted in our souls; by the one nature we are lifted upward to the heavens, and by the other, shoved downward to the lower world." -On the Dignity of Man
What is Duality?
Duality is the belief that man has a dual nature, that there is something more than the obvious physical side. For some, it is the construction of Mind and Body, or Spirit and Body, or occasionally, "mind, Body, and Spirit".
In Hinduism, the concept of duality transcends the visible comparison, and compares the Duality of the inner world, between the Atman and the Ego, between the Higher Self and the Lower. Anime Prima and Anime Secunda, the greek Daemon and Eidolon; the middle eastern Juno and Jin.
Discuss.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:57 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:55 pm
have you ever read Comic books? there used to be a cartoon about comic book characters, one of them was called "Firestorm". He was from the same comic book company that makes Super Man and Batman. Firestorm was an example of a "Duality" character. He was a college student who was exposed to an experiment with his chemistry teacher. His chemistry teacher practically disintegrated, and their minds sort of merged, but they were still separate people. They became "firestorm"; which is a union of a "jock" chemistry college student, and the "professor" enlightened Teacher. when they are together, they possess a dazzling array of abilities and powers which infact, rival that of Superman. This comic is a metaphore or a "parable" describing the benefit of Uniting the higher and lower self.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:32 am
According to the advaita vedanta philosophy, the ideal of aham Brahmam asmi (rought translation is 'I am the Brahma/atman'), is considered the ultimate truth. However, in saying that "I am ..." anything, you are cutting yourself off from that which is everything. The universe, time, your physical body, the concept of you or me or individual is all maya (illusion). The maya, however, is not imposed by any higher/lower individual. Rather, it is almost like you're life is a dream state from which your soul hopes to eventually awaken. While in the dream, the concepts and aspects of the dream are real to you at that moment. Through the cycle of reincarnation, we're given the opportunity to evolve through the various births (stages of dreaming) and eventually, attain nirvana, and merge with the Atman. This is why the Hindu religion really doesn't contain a concept of heaven or hell -- the ultimate "reward" for a life well lived is moving closer towards the epiphany that allows you to transcend the falsehood that is creation.
Oh. And cookies solve all problems. mrgreen
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:44 pm
Duality is cool, it has effected nearly everything in our world. Architecture, Religion, Philosophy. Good and Evil, black and white, left and right.
But what if we thought of things in threes? That'd be pretty cool, how do you think it would effect our world?
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:19 am
"If the soul is the essence of the body, one must understand what makes up the soul. The soul has an independent, substantial reality, rather than being dependent. Plato argues that the soul is composed of three separate parts, reason, spirit, and appetites.
Plato's Allegory of the Chariot is a symbolic depiction of the tripartite analysis of the soul. Two horses draw the chariot (of the personality). One of the horses is good and the other one is not. The good horse represents spirit, is noble, well formed, handsome, and tending to behave magnificently. The other horse, representing the appetites, is crooked, lumbering, ill made, stiff-necked, short-throated, with bloodshot eyes. The charioteer, whose job is to determine the direction and speed, to drive the chariot, and to coordinate the activities of both his horses is symbolic of reason.
We can see through the Allegory of the Chariot that Plato's philosophy of human nature involves not only external conflicts, but internal as well. All such conflict is a distraction from the soul's proper activity, which includes the pursuit of knowledge. If reason is to rule wisely, its command must be informed by knowledge. " ~Plato's thoughts on one's personality.
The only personal objection I have against the idea of duality, is that it's put very black-and-white. There's the one part, and the other, but there is nothing inbetween, which is something that doesn't sound right in my mind... Instead of two parts, I'd think it would be a tad more logical to assume that there are 3 parts: The black, the white, and the grey. The lightness of the gray part is determined by the influence of both black and white parts... ^^
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:33 am
it is sad that i find this very facinating but have nothing to add sweatdrop
i think the theory of duelity is sound as a start but it allows more philosopheys to grow from it
ignore my ramblings sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:47 am
Democalyps Plato's Allegory of the Chariot is a symbolic depiction of the tripartite analysis of the soul. Two horses draw the chariot (of the personality). One of the horses is good and the other one is not. The good horse represents spirit, is noble, well formed, handsome, and tending to behave magnificently. The other horse, representing the appetites, is crooked, lumbering, ill made, stiff-necked, short-throated, with bloodshot eyes. The charioteer, whose job is to determine the direction and speed, to drive the chariot, and to coordinate the activities of both his horses is symbolic of reason. ... The only personal objection I have against the idea of duality, is that it's put very black-and-white. There's the one part, and the other, but there is nothing inbetween, which is something that doesn't sound right in my mind... Instead of two parts, I'd think it would be a tad more logical to assume that there are 3 parts: The black, the white, and the grey. The lightness of the gray part is determined by the influence of both black and white parts... ^^ The problem I always had with the story of the charioteer, or the man, the beast and the lion, is the Greeks' conception of reason. They didn't really see it as possible for reason to be a tyrant; for the charioteer to drive the horses in the wrong direction or the man to abuse both the lion and the beast. Here I think Socrates and Plato were perhaps a bit too optimistic in their estimation of man. To know the good isn't necessarily to do the good. I agree that duality is too split--it oscillates between pure good and pure evil, as opposed to actually mixing two, or confusing them. Your black/white/grey analogy works very well, I think.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:40 pm
Duality is absurd. Our emotions are much more complex than simply two degrees.
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:25 pm
Consider Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism if you are really interested.
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