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  • the characteristic of being two fold, having two sides to their personality, i think....
  • The duality of man is in the mind. From a buddhist point of view there are the five aggregates (form, consciousness, feeling, thought and choice)and they are what they are. There is simply those 5 aggregates which when combined give the illusion of a "self" or a "man" / the illusion of duality
  • The duality of man generally refers to the two opposing sides of the nature of man. (i.e. good and evil, animalistic and enlightened, emotional and reasonable) This is a common thread throughout the history of art, religion and, of course, can be seen in history. Often in art it will be portrayed with a demonic figure doing something good or the opposite. In film it is used when an antagonist is good, ex. Darth Vader in the Star Wars Trilogy becomes the hero in the end by saving the empire from the emperor after having been the villain in the other movies. Most of the time it is much more subtle than that but you catch my drift. Many religions have this duality represented in their theology. Christianity has God and Satan being opposing forces fighting over the souls of men since the beginning of time. And God having been the creator of everything thus having to fight his own creation, the devil, for the rest of time. This is symbolic of man's desire to do good but often we fight our desires for carnal/material pleasures in order to do so. In the picture that I am uploading the child is portraying our innocence while the weapon represents our brutality.
  • life and death
  • This can mean different things, depending on the context. 'In philosophy of mind, dualism is any of a narrow variety of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which claims that mind and matter are two ontologically separate categories.' - 'In some cultures, people (or also other beings) are believed to have two or more kinds of soul. In several cases, one of these souls is associated with body functions (and is sometimes thought to disappear after death, but not always), and the other one is able to leave the body (for example, a shaman's free-soul may be held to be able to undertake a spirit journey).' Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism - 'In me there are two souls, alas, and their Division tears my life in two. One loves the world, it clutches her, it binds Itself to her, clinging with furious lust; The other longs to soar beyond the dust Into the realm of high ancestral minds.' Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Goethe's_Faust - 'Colonel: You write "born to kill" on your helmet, and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke? [...] Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir. Colonel: The what? Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.' Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket For a discussion of this: 'The Jungian thing is the distinction between the personal unconscious and the Collective Unconscious. The personal unconscious is composed of an individual's repressed thoughts or feelings. The Collective Unconscious is composed of primordial images found in all of humanity: Jung labelled them archetypes.' Source: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0093.html - 'In Chapter 10, Jekyll writes clearly about the dual nature of human beings. He says that, as a young, educated man from a respectable family, he maintained an appearance of good behaviour at all times. But he says this was a fraud - no one suspected his true nature, which was at times extremely immoral. Jekyll's experiments began in an attempt to separate the two sides of human nature and destroy the evil one. He discovered that the evil part of his nature was, indeed, part of himself, and therefore, in some sense, natural and part of the whole.' Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/prosejekyllhyde/3prose_jekyllhyde_themerev1.shtml
  • 2-3-2017 Here is a long essay explaining "The Bicameral Mind". The supposition is that human mentality made a significant change at some point, which shows in ancient writings. One example of the concept is when you tell a child something new and he says "No it's not." Only after a certain age is the kid able to consider "I didn't know that." This has subtle implications about a lot of things. Unfortunately, I did not understand the concept well enough to summarize it any better than I have done. http://www.viewzone.com/state-of-mind/01.html

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