She rejects feminist charges that the dominant tradition of reason is dualistic (without considering the major detailed historical arguments for this proposition in the work of Genevieve Lloyd and others), counter-charging that such feminist critiques are 'surrational' and treating these critiques as if they must involve an en bloc rejection of western rationality.
Examples such as from Bogomil myths of creation are exploited in the interpretation that Osman essentially narrates a cosmic struggle between the forces of Good and Evil, with strong dualistic implications.
In spite of himself, Sawday appears to accept the validity of a post-Cartesian mentalist self with its dualistic conceptual apparatus: he writes, for instance, of our bodies as 'the fragile carapace in which we live our lives' (6).
Nevertheless, he admits that on the dualistic view the emergence of consciousness will strike one as "astounding, if not virtually incredible", and may continue to do so even when we remind ourselves that we have no a priori knowledge of what can occur in nature.
In this beautiful and sensitive analysis of the mindset of the victim of eating disorders, Claude-pierre reveals the painful and dualistic war that takes place within that victim.
Monistic and dualistic views of God and the world are ruled out for that purpose, the former self-evidently and the latter on the ground that analogy is not applicable when the difference is as radical as that between God and the world in a dualistic account.
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