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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey
Dualism
Else
Everything
Feelings
Meaning
Mind
Modern
Morality
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So-Called
Spirit
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