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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 ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
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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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, 2016 Activation of oncogenic signaling paradoxically results in the permanent withdrawal from cell cycle and induction of senescence (oncogene-induced senescence (OIS)). OIS is a fail-safe mechanism used by the cells to prevent uncontrolled tumor growth, and, as such, it is considered as the first barrier against cancer.
Anna, Bianchi-Smiraglia +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 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 Concept of the Immortality of the Soul: A Biblical-Theological Study [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 The concept of the immortality of the soul, as held by pagans, has been the subject of extensive scholarly research over the years. Despite concerted efforts to disprove the idea of life after death, the doctrine remains a theological enigma.
Joseph Danquah
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Study on the Relationship between Symbolic Immortality and Population
Yixue yu zhexueThis study employs multidisciplinary lenses from psychology, sociology, and cultural studies to examine the explanatory mechanisms of symbolic immortality theory in understanding demographic behaviors and its contemporary challenges.
Xianghan MENG, Qiang LI
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Why death can be bad and immortality is worse [PDF]
, 2009 This thesis examines the moral implications of the metaphysical nature of death. I begin with the Epicurean arguments which hold that death is morally irrelevant for the one who dies, and that one should regard it accordingly.
Kalnow, Cara
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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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