Originated in the ancient period, a well-known version of dualism is credited to Rene Descartes

of the 17^th century. According to him, human beings consisted of two quite unlike substances which could not exist in unity.

When was dualism introduced?

However, Dualism was most precisely formulated by René Descartes in the 17th Century.

Where did the concept of dualism come from?

Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian religious beliefs by the contrast of the gods Set (disorder, death) and Osiris (order, life). The first explicit conception of dualism came from the Ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism around the mid-fifth century BC.