My relationship to athleticism has changed pretty drastically in the last year. At some point, I began looking at my habits and decided I wanted a change. Swimming, biking and especially weightlifting ...

Until him, such a separation was not part of mainstream philosophy. In fact, this idea of duality came to be named after him, and is known as “Cartesian dualism”. The duality was in keeping with the ...

The Cartesian idea of the spirit or soul as a disembodied presence merely using or occupying a body, rather than the two being integrally connected, is a cardinal principle in transhumanism, the ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed ‘language is the house of the truth of being.’ The ...

This article looks at dualism in Zoroastrianism, which is the existence of, yet complete separation of, good and evil. Zoroastrian dualism is probably one of the most debated aspects of Zoroastrianism ...