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Catharism is presented as a dualist belief that this world was created by the devil and traps pure souls in corrupt bodies.
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Catharism is presented as a dualist belief that this world was created by the devil and traps pure souls in corrupt bodies.
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Jiang defines Plato as a dualist who values the eternal soul over the decaying body, while Aristotle is a materialist concerned with what happens to the body.
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"...belief, okay? But its main idea is this. They believe in dualism. They believe that this world that we live in, it was created..."
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"So the goal of life is to discover that we are imprisoned and escape our bodies and return to heaven through good works, through..."
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"And Aristotle is what we call a materialist. A dualist is someone who believes that there's a body and a soul. Okay? And if..."
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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