Bell Hooks Quotes About Dualism

Quotes about: Dualism

• Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Educational, Heart, Thinking

• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

• I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Metaphysical, Western

  Source: nefac.net

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