Nonduality teacher Rupert Spira (who here also mentions his colleague Bernardo Kastrup) succinctly and eloquently articulates key arguments for idealism:
The materialist unscientifically presumes a substance outside of consciousness
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(2022-07-05, 03:25 AM)Ninshub Wrote: Nonduality teacher Rupert Spira (who here also mentions his colleague Bernardo Kastrup) succinctly and eloquently articulates key arguments for idealism: Dualism vs. monism, there is an objective external world vs. everything is mental. Idealism as a form of metaphysical monism holds that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being. It is monist because it holds that there is only one type of thing in the universe and idealist because it holds that one thing to be consciousness. I think an excellent post by Silver Asiatic well encapsulates my dualistic view of the matter, at https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-...e-evolved/: Quote:"If we have universals (abstract concepts) that are distinct from particular, we have a basis for material/immaterial dualism. This refutes monism. (2022-07-05, 10:26 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: Dualism vs. monism, there is an objective external world vs. everything is mental. I find a purely Dualistic approach as unhelpful as a purely Monistic approach, honestly... Idealist monism fails at intuitively answering the question of why we experience distinctions between things, between extremes, while Dualism fails to answer the question of the origins of the two major substances of mind and matter. I think that the seemingly impossible issue can be resolved simply enough. Consciousness can simply... exist without need of anything external to it. It just... exists, for itself, by itself. Existence in isolation, so to speak. Matter, on the other hand, has no reality or existence or meaning without Consciousness giving definition and purpose to it. It doesn't exist before Consciousness creates it. A dualism out of a monism... Taoist philosophy has an excellent concept for explaining this... the Taijitu, representing Yin and Yang, Earth and Heaven, the twin creative powers of existence, the Two existing as One, eternally giving rise to the other, Yin bearing the seed of Yang, and Yang bearing the seed of Yin. Heaven, Yang, is initially undivided, and is thus unmanifest and formless. It has no distinct qualities, because there is nothing to define it. Heaven, alone, is the Monad. Heaven then gives rise to Earth, Yin. The moment Earth comes into being, so does Heaven, as Earth's existence defines and brings Heaven into existence. Earth and Heaven are able to be recognized by virtue of the other's existence.
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