Dualisme i literatur, film etc. søges!
17. aug 2007 11:51, Jan de Dacia
I forbindelse med min interesse for dualisme leder jeg efter passager i litteraturen, aviser, reklamer etc. hvor dualisme er iøjnefaldende. Ideer, links og referencer er yderst velkomne.
Jeg søger specielt den form for dualisme der opdeler verden i to dele herunder en fysisk, materiel og korporlig del overfor eller som oftest set underdanig til en spirituel, nonmaterialistisk, sjælelig del. Gilbert Ryle formulerer og problematiserer denne form for dualisme i en kendt passage fra hans bog The Concept of Mind:
“There is a doctrine about the nature and place of minds which is so prevalent among theorists and even among laymen that it deserves to be described as the official theory […] The official doctrine, which hails chiefly from Descartes, is something like this. With the doubtful exception of idiots and infants in arms every human being is both a body and a mind. Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. His body and his mind are ordinarily harnessed together, but after the death of the body his mind may continue to exist and function. Human bodies are in space and are subject to mechanical laws which govern all other bodies in space […] But minds are not in space, nor are their operations subject to mechanical laws […] such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it with deliberate abusiveness, as ‘the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.”Lad mig høre fra jer!
