Lógica dualista, piedad monoteísta: la fisonomía del dualismo maniqueo

Abstract

Dualism is a modality of religious belief to which many religious thinkers have been attracted. In order to classify the manifold varieties of this belief, the Italian sholar Ugo Bianchi proposed some decades ago an interpretive model formed by three pairs of categories. If we use these categories to describe Manichaeism (a dualistic religion par excellence), we observe that they are useful in some cases, but not in others. Our work aims at describing in a most precise way Manichaean dualism through a set of five categories which modify and complete Bianchi's approach. In the light of our results, we also examine the specific nature of Manichaean piety.