341. 14 Dualism, Half-dualism, Non-dualism

• Review Platonic, Neo-Platonic, Cartesian Dualism
• Review post-Cartesian half-dualisms: idealism, empiricism
• Dualism in India
  • Upanisads
    • Brahman-Atman/maya
  • Jaina metaphysics: dualism and radical asceticism
    • purusha/prakriti
    • jiva/ajiva
    • aloka/loka
    • atomic, material karma
    • meaning of moksha in this system
  • Jaina metaphysics and ahimsa
    • basis of a non-altruistic ethic
  • The case for animals and plants
    • ahimsa is not care but non-involvement
• "Moksha" as the resolution of dualism by half-dualism
  • union of atman with Brahman, escape from maya
  • escape of purusha from prakriti