Definition of Dualesm
Dualism, or Manichæism, the doctrine that there are two
opposite and independently existing principles which go to constitute
every concrete thing throughout the universe, such as a principle of good
and a principle of evil, light and darkness, life and death, spirit and
matter, ideal and real, yea and nay, God and Devil, Christ and
Antichrist, Ormuzd and Ahriman.
- Wikipedia
Du"al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
dualisme.] State of being dual or twofold; a twofold
division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a
twofold distinction; as: (a) (Philos.)
A view of man as constituted of two original and independent
elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.)
(b) A system which accepts two gods, or two
original principles, one good and the other evil.
(c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by
the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into
two classes, the elect and the reprobate. (d)
(Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts
independently of the other.
An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that
each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it
whole. Emerson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- duality; the condition of being double
- (philosophy) the view that the world consists of, or is explicable as two fundamental entities, such as mind and matter, or good and evil
- (theology) the belief that the world is ruled by the antagonistic forces of good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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