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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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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, Usha Colas-Chauhan
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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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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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Divine Evolution: Empedocles’ Anthropology
Purpose. Reconstruction of Empedocles’ doctrine from the point of view of philosophical anthropology. Theoretical basis. Methodological basis of the article is the anthropological comprehending of Empedocles’ text fragments presented in the historical ...
A. V. Halapsis
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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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We defined the house in the area as “licit architecture,” which is built by architectural practices of people such as to deviate from official law, customary law, and custom within the acceptable level among them. This paper aims at the understanding of the mutual relationship between taboo on faith and house Space in “licit architecture” in 70 Rai ...
Takuya Abe, Ikuro Shimizu
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Who gets what? Assessing the reincarnation debate
Reincarnation is a death-specific and forward-looking philosophico-religious phenomenon that enjoys a cross-cultural appeal. It represents the theory that when the soul separates from the body at death, it informs another body for another round of ...
Nicholas U. Asogwa, Michael E. Onwuama
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