Differences?

Question

whats the difference between philosophers that are materialist, rationalist, dualist

Answer 1

Materailist may mean bigger is better and,or,anything goes, while a rationalist is more pragmatic and realizes the necessity of self control and the need to respect the needs of others; a dualist sees a struggle between light and dark and while this may be real it may also be a transient state that calls for neutrality and a reason for deeper investigation.

Answer 2

Actually, Nicole: the opposite of Materialist is Phenomenologists, let me explain:

Materialism sustains that the world is material and that it exists independently of our perceiving it.
Phenomenology sustains that everything is just phenomena known by the mind, and that if there was no mind to perceive them, then there would be nothing.

therefore, a dualist is he who says that both situations are the case: That there is a material world independent of us, but that we can only know this material world via our perception and nothing more than what we perceive. Because of this last reason, there si what we can know, and what we can't know, both being aspect of the total reality.


PS: the opposite of rationalism is Empiricsim, the difference strives ion the fact that the first says that we have the innate capacity to know, "a priori". While empirictsts deny this saying that we can only know through experience alone, or "a posteriori"

The middle point? You guessed right: Dualists! Such as Kant or Schoppenhauer.

Rationalists? Descartes, Spinoza, etc.
Empiricists: Hume, locke, etc.


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