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Dualities

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Life is full of dualities. Things coexist, oppose, contrast and parallel every day. Duality teaches us that every aspect of life is created from a balanced interaction of opposite and competing forces. Yet these forces are not just opposites; they are complementary.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary the word dual means ‘with two parts’ and duality ‘the state of combining two things.’ In philosophy ‘mind-body dualism’ was first formulated by the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes who stated that there exists a clear distinction between physical and mental phenomena..

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Contraries and Human Existence: William Blake and Cleansing the Doors of Perceptions

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Sight is found in the struggles of life, William Blake realised, as his own life was lived between heaven and hell, innocence and experience, vision and labour. Opposites are the energy of the imagination and bring the power to see through surfaces. Blake offers maps that chart the transformation from the narrow sight of Ulro to the full embrace of Eternity. We will also consider the role of dualities in Romantic philosophers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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