There is good reason for exoteric dualism
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Easier on one level, although genuine dualism opens up a number of other problems - things no longer have a single authentic identity, but rather 2 possible identities, each no less authentic than the other (man no longer meant for the Good, with Evil as an inferior alternative).
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Surely, it is inferior to monism, but that is also why I said "exoteric" dualism, e.g. the Manichean tradition
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Perhaps it’s inferior, because seemingly less plausible & logical, but that may be just our Christian & modern conditioning leading us to think that.
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Ah, but is Christianity not very dualist? God - Satan, Good - Evil, God - Creation, etc. At least in its popular mode of presentation
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I’d call it a qualified dualism, in that one of the terms is inferior & subordinate to the other. The implications of true dualism are quite different.
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