What is Dualism?
In philosophy, dualism is the belief that reality is ultimately composed of two fundamentally different types of substances or principles. Generally, dualism holds that there are two types of entities Continue Reading
What is real?
Mind Vs Matter There are two sides to reality, the objective side of atoms, molecules, rocks, trees, people, places and events vs the subjective experience of the mind. Matter and Continue Reading
A problem for the body…
Something that often comes up in our conversations here at the Standup Philosophers is the subject of bodily aches and pains, illness and disease and their effects upon the peace Continue Reading
Beaches…
Beaches are surreal places; where the ocean meets the land. There’s something timeless about a beach, eternal almost. At your left hand, you have the orderliness of the land, at Continue Reading
Meditations on Matter, Mind and Love
Every mystic will ultimately tell you that we’re all ‘one-thing,’ and that ‘one-thing,’ is the entire universe. Philosophically speaking this is known as ‘Monism,’ in which a oneness can be Continue Reading
Hieraclitus, an argument for Dualism
Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who lived between 535 BC and 465 BC, most famous for his ethical fragments and his doctrine that change was not only central to the Continue Reading
Nietzsche and the abyss – The unity of nothingness.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze Continue Reading
What are you really?
As a dualist, I see the divide in the universe as being one of mind vs matter not matter vs energy or antimatter vs matter or any other readily observable Continue Reading