Part one of term paper
ism Dualism means the complete separation of the mental world and the physical world. In philosophy, it is the theory that the universe is explicable only as a whole composed of two distinct and mutually exclusive factors: the mind and the body. Socrates and Plato are called dualists because they think that mind and body are separate and dis ...

Part two of term paper
... of it. In fact, as the body drags the soul around, it only confuses the soul with its senses and does not allow the soul to obtain truth and wisdom. The only way the soul can find pure knowledge or reality is to become separate from the body since "the soul reasons best when none of the senses troubles it… but when it is most by itself, taking leave of the body… in its search for reality" (Plato 102). In the pursuit of knowledge, the only way to discover reality is to separate t ...