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Avicenna’s Arguments against Metempsychosis [PDF]
Metempsychosis is the concept of the transmigration of a human or animal soul into another human, animal, plant, or even an inanimate object. The theory of metempsychosis poses a challenge to the belief in resurrection (Maʿād), making it necessary to ...
Mahdi Khayatzadeh
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Mulla Sadra on “divine metempsychosis” [PDF]
“Celestial metempsychosis” is transferring the soul from physical body to the other-worldly one according to moral attributes and their manifestation in the afterlife.
seedhasan bathayi
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An 18th Century Jesuit “Refutation of Metempsychosis” in Sanskrit
The Punarjanmākṣepa, a work in Sanskrit from the 17th–18th century Jesuit milieu, aims at refuting the notion of reincarnation as believed by the Hindus in India.
Gérard Colas
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Chrześcijaństwo a reinkarnacja i metempsychoza w świetle polemiki Tertuliana z Platonem
The aim of this article is to show what the standpoint of Christianity in first centuries was among pagan conviction and teaching about reincarnation and metempsychosis.
Adam M. Filipowicz
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Karmayoga Analysed through Spinoza’s Perspective on ‘Eternity’ and Bergson’s ‘Élan Vital’Karmayoga Analysed through Spinoza’s Perspective on ‘Eternity’ and Bergson’s ‘Élan Vital’ [PDF]
This study aims to unveil the dimensions of karmayoga on duty and action exposed in the Bhagavad Gita from the philosophical perspective of eternity postulated by Spinoza and the concept of élan vital (the vital force or impulse of life) propounded by
Sabindra Raj Bhandari
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“How terrible everything is!” The idea of reincarnation in N. Gumilyov’s and A. Blok’s literary interpretation [PDF]
The idea of Reincarnation is analyzed as a core motive, by the example of which the similarities and differences of poetic universes of Blok and Gumilyov are interpreted.
Viacheslav Malykh
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Nearest Metempsychosis in the Cinderella Fairy-Tale
The article describes functional mechanism of heroine’s metempsychosis in the Oriental and Occidental Cinderella fairy-tale. According to the classification of Aarne - Thompson, these tales belong to the type 510 A “persecution of the heroine”, which is ...
Veronika D. Altashina +1 more
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Abstract In his account of his Düsseldorf conversations with G.E. Lessing shortly before the latter’s death in 1781, F.H. Jacobi records the Enlightenment poet and philosopher’s allusion to the Kabbalistic philosophy of Henry More, whom he cited in support of his shocking Spinozist creed of the hen kai pan.
Christian Hengstermann
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