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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]
, 2015 Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Arnaud Wisman +9 more
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The Human Principles of Political Progress from the Viewpoint of Islam [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2018 By examining different schools of political development, we can say that one-dimensional and totally materialist attitude to man based on the principle of humanism is one of the most important ones.In this sense, political development, religion, and ...
حشمت الله فلاحت پیشه +1 more
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Immortal Life and Eternity. On the Transhumanist Project of Immortality
Scientia et Fides, 2019 Some transhumanist authors make the prophecy of immortality thanks to the transfer of the human mind to a superintelligent computer that would guarantee the survival of the person. That immortality would mean a happy life.
Emilio José Justo Domínguez
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Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction to Special Issue of Edited Journal - Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia Wild and diverse outcomes are associated with transmutational practices: the prolongation of life, the ...
Barois, Christèle +2 more
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Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018 The notion of immortality in John Harris's philosophy The main goal of this article is to analyze the notion of immortality, to place it in the context of bioethical debate over the concept of human enhancement and to present problems related to these ...
Bartosz Pokorski
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The Ethics and Impact of Digital Immortality [PDF]
, 2017 The concept of digital immortality has emerged over the past decade and is defined here as the continuation of an active or passive digital presence after death.
Burden, D. +2 more
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The Genesis of L. N. Tolstoy’s Ideas About Individual Immortality in the Context of His Perception of the Philosophical Ideas of I. G. Herder and A. Schopenhauer [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журналThe article shows that during the era of the creation of the epic “War and Peace” L. N. Tolstoy shared the idea of individual immortality and interpreted it by I. G. Herder’s concept of palingenesis, i.
Igor I. Evlampiev
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The (Un)desirability of Immortality [PDF]
, 2020 While most people believe the best possible life they could lead would be an immortal one, so‐called “immortality curmudgeons” disagree. Following Bernard Williams, they argue that, at best, we have no prudential reason to live an immortal life, and at ...
Pereira, Felipe, Timmerman, Travis
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Immortality in Empedocles [PDF]
, 2017 Most of the work for the paper was undertaken in Toronto during a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.The paper examines Empedocles’ attributions of immortality.
Long, Alex
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Scientia et Fides, 2017 Claimed Aristotle the immortality of the soul? Suarez respondsSuarez discussed the question of the immortality of the soul in Aristotle twice: in his youthful commentary (1574) and at the end of his life (1617).
Antonio Ñahuincopa Arango
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