Dualistic Thinking

[goodcatholic]

What is it exactly?
Is it bad?
Should I avoid it?
Are you a dualistic thinker?
Have you thought that way in the past?
What do the Catholic scholars think of it? Such as Pope Benedict.

Here’s one definition:
Dualistic thinking, according to William Perry’s model of intellectual development, is the intellectual ability to understand good and evil but not the nuances in between. He believed it was the base level of intellectual development that most college freshmen possessed

 

[goodcatholic]

I am wondering if this kind of thinking hates “doubt” and indecision.

 

[1Lord1Faith]

On one hand, I think dualistic thinking has to be good. Things are either bad or good, and 50 shades of grey just leaves people wanting.

On the other hand, the one that’s used to do bad things, I think that this dualistic thinking is detrimental to my sense of self-righteousness. If I can’t put something solidly in between good or bad, then it’s possibly bad. That’s not good.

 

[goodcatholic]

Dualistic thinking spells judgment; judgment that we are better than the other, that we know better. Yet, once you decide to suspend judgment and really look at what is around us, we see that everything is the way it should be, and that life is unfolding one moment , one minute at the time. We see that the flow of it is perfect and that we don’t need to interfere. There is no reason to judge or assume anything. It is when we doubt, when we want to control everything that things fall apart.
(from Dualistic Thinking – Enviroart by Suzanne Bélair, IAF, AFC )

 

[goodcatholic]

It is when we doubt, when we want to control everything that things fall apart.

I don’t see the logic in that statement.

 

[goodcatholic]

I just wonder if non-dualistic thinking is more of a problem? that leads to subjectivism, subjective truth and relativism?

 

[BlackFriar]

There are three types of dualist thinkers.
Those who count, and those who don’t.