Metempsychosis and Individual Identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Pythagoras and Empedocles are not generally believed to have left an indelible imprint on Edgar Allan Poe’s oeuvre, despite the direct allusion to each of these Presocratic thinkers in the poet’s writings. It is also quite remarkable that “The Black Cat”
Anna Michelle Sabatini
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Abstract This article demonstrates how, in the 1760s, two British East India Company servants, John Zephaniah Holwell and Alexander Dow, constructed a particular interpretation of India's ancient religious past through creative misrepresentations of mysteriously sourced texts.
Jessica Patterson
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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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On the Benefits of Rational Simplicity: How to Teach Humanities in Technical Universities?
The article continues the discussion of teaching humanities disciplines in technical universities, which has been going on for several years on the pages of our journal.
E. N. Ivakhnenko, N. I. Kuznetsova
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Mystik als Ursprung der Naturphilosophie. Zur Relevanz von Joëls Grundthese
Karl Joël’s book “Der Ursprung der Naturphilosophie aus dem Geiste der Mystik” seems at first glance, like almost all of his writings, as if the author was not very keen on an argumentative course. Yet, the text has been very precisely structured.
Harald Schwaetzer
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Ibn Sina’s and Mulla Sadra’s Principles and Solutions in the Rejection of Metempsychosis; Review and Comparison [PDF]
Metempsychosis, in current philosophical terms, means transition of soul from its own body into another material body, either in this world or after death. This idea is absolutely rejected by Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra through intellectual reasoning.
Forough Rahimpour
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The Theme of Metempsychosis in the Poetry of Nikolay Gumilev [PDF]
The article is devoted to Nikolay Gumilev’s appeal to the topic of recalling past incarnations, understood as the mystical ability of memory. This topic was popular in the period of the Silver Age in Russian literature.
Сундукова, Ксения
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Reincarnation in Plato and in the Christian Perspective
The present study focuses on research about reincarnation in order to formulate some preliminary conclusions concerning various philosophical theories.
Michail Mantzanas
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The Inebriated Myth Tellers or the Sober Observers? Molavi and Shams' Different Views on Shath or Ecstatic Utterance [PDF]
Although it is mentioned that Rumi and Shams agree on all mystical issues, reflecting on their views shows that they have differences of opinion on some minor issues.
Samaneh Al-Sadat Aghadadi +2 more
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Sensations et retrouvailles avec la nature dans le conte romantique
Under the influence of thinkers such as Schelling, Novalis, the authors Tieck and Nodier then G. Sand get back in touch with a pantheistic vision of the world, and with an intensity of feeling that their contemporaries seem to have lost.
Catherine Rapenne
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