ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

  • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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    81 year ago

    Hmm, I don’t understand the dualism aspect, do you think you could explain to help me understand?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      71 year ago

      I think they might mean a the belief some people have of an independent morality from any earthly actions a person performs. As in, there’s a mind you have with intentions and you’re morally just so long as your intentions are good, regardless of what you’re actually acting on the behalf of. American liberals sometimes do this to assuage their cognitive dissonance

      • Carguacountii [none/use name]
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        51 year ago

        I took it to mean manichean type doctrine, but I might be wrong. For example, Augustine (possibly the preminent early theologian of Christianity) was originally a Manichean - it was very widespread and popular, influencing thought and understanding to this day, being a sythesis of ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ (and no doubt ‘northern’, i.e. turkic/siberian too) thought of various kinds.

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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      161 year ago

      I think she just means “dualism” in the sense of the metaphysical view that the world is composed of opposite forces in all things: good and evil, light and dark, mental and physical, chad and soy, etc.