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Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Philosophical Views
The Ancient Greeks used the same word for 'alive' as for 'ensouled'. So the earliest surviving Western philosophical view might suggest t...
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Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Religious Views
Soul - Bahá'í beliefs.
The Bahá'í Faith affirm that "the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of me...
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Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Science And The Soul
Western science and medicine do recognize the concept of soul or the idea of a soul entity, though many practitioners regard it as an ele...
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Soul: Encyclopedia - Soul
The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — par...
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Sankara And Ramanuja: Double Celebration - Sankara & Ramanuja
Adi Sankaracharya and Ramanujacharya were great philosophers. Their road maps to the Absolute reflect the essence of Indian spiritual ...
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Holocaust Theology: Encyclopedia - Holocaust Theology
Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related li...
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Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Mind - History Of The Philosophy Of The Mind
A leading exponent of the substantial view was George Berkeley, an 18th century Anglican bishop and philosopher. Berkeley argued that the...
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Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Mind - Nature Of The Mind
Both philosophers and psychologists remain divided about the nature of the mind. Some take what is known as the substantial view, and arg...
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Plato: Encyclopedia Ii - Plato - The State
Plato's philosophical views had many societal implications, especially on the idea of an ideal state or government. There is some discrep...
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Jean-paul Marat: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-paul Marat - Scientist And Physician
In 1773 he made his first appearance as an author with a Philosophical Essay on Man. The book shows a wonderful knowledge of English, Fre...
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Jean-paul Marat: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-paul Marat - Scientist And Physician
In 1773 he made his first appearance as an author with a Philosophical Essay on Man. The book shows a wonderful knowledge of English, Fre...
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Plato: Encyclopedia Ii - Plato - The State
Plato's philosophical views had many societal implications, especially on the idea of an ideal state or government. There is some discrep...
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Afterlife: Encyclopedia Ii - Afterlife - Related Studies
The study of views of the afterlife is a concern of Eschatology, which deals with the soul, the resurrection of the dead, the messianic e...
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Joint Jewish And Islamic Philosophies: Encyclopedia Ii - Joint Jewish And Islamic Philosophies - Argument For Creation
Aristotle, the prince of the philosophers, demonstrated the unity of God; but from the view which he maintained, that matter was eternal,...
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Racialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Racialism - W. E. B. Dubois
W.E.B. DuBois argues that racialism is the philosophical belief that differences between the races exist, be it biological, social, psych...
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Racialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Racialism - W. E. B. Dubois
W.E.B. DuBois argues that racialism is the philosophical belief that differences between the races exist, be it biological, social, psych...
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Culture Of Human Beings: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Human Beings - Religion
Scientists and naturalist philosophers largely agree that humans consist of a body alone (roughly the physicalist or reductionist view); ...
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Meister Eckhart: Encyclopedia Ii - Meister Eckhart - Overview
Eckhart was one of the most influential Christian Neoplatonists, and although technically a faithful Thomist (as a prominent member of th...
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Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Kabbalah In Non-jewish Society
Kabbalah eventually gained an audience outside of the Jewish community. Nominal-Christian versions of Kabbalah began to develop; by the e...
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Monism:
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monism: "Doctrine of oneness." 1) The philosophical view that there is only one ultimate substance or pri...
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Acosmic Pantheism:
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acosmic pantheism: "No-cosmos, all-is-God doctrine." A Western philosophical term for the philosophy of Shankara. It is acos...
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Acosmic Pantheism:
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acosmic pantheism: "No-cosmos, all-is-God doctrine." A Western philosophical term for the philosophy of Shankara. It is acosmi...
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Chu Hsi:
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Chu Hsi (1130-1200): Most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher whose interpretation of Confucianism became the standard view until th...
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Nagarjuna:
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Nagarjuna (Sanskrit). An Arhat, a hermit (a native of Western India) converted to Buddhism by Kapimala and the fourteenth Patriarch, a...
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Xenocrates:
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Xenocrates (395?-314 BC) Greek philosopher and poet; "founder of the Eleatic philosophy and of pantheism, inasmuch as he combated...
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Monotheism:
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monotheism: "Doctrine of one God." Contrasted with polytheism, meaning belief in many Gods. The term monotheism cove...
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Theodice, Theodicy:
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Theodice, Theodicy [coined from Greek theos god + dike justice] A vindication of divine justice; a system or method of intellec...
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Ymir:
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Ymir (Scandianvian Norse). The personified matter of our globe in a seething condition. The cosmic monster in the form of a gi...
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Mysticism:
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Mysticism A word originally derived from the Greek and having a wide range of meanin...
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Voodoo:
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VOODOO (Or VOUDON; from Tovodun, the Dahomean gods.) The West African religion together with its transplanted form in Haiti and elsewh...
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Smartism:
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Smartism: (Sanskrit) Sect based on the secondary scriptures (smriti). The most liberal of the four major Hindu denominations, ...
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Porphyry, Porphyrius:
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Porphyry, or Porphyrius. A Neo-Platonist and a most distinguished writer, only second to Plotinus as a teacher and philosopher.  ...
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Sufi, Sufi, Sufism:
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Sufi, Sufi, Sufism [from Arab suf wool; sufi he who wears woolen garments] A school of thought that emphasizes the superiority ...
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Atom:
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Atom This word comes to us from the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus, Leucippus, and...
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Emmanuel Swedenborg:
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Swedenborg, Emmanuel ( 1688-1772) A Swedish scientist, theosophist, and mystic, a pioneer in both scientific, religious and spiritual ...
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Cartesian System:
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Cartesian System The system of Descartes, the great French philosopher (1596-1650), representing the first great attempt in Europe to ...
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Boehme:
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Boehme (Jacob). A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the medieval ages. He was born about 1575 at Old...
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World-germs:
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World-germs A metaphor for cosmic monads, fundamental elementary principles of all ancient religious and philosophical systems. Each m...
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Visishtadvaita, Visistadvaita:
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Visishtadvaita, Visistadvaita
Visishtadvaita visistadvaita (Sanskrit) [from visishta distinguished, qualified from the verbal root visish to distinguish + advaita n...
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Codex Nazaraeus:
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Codex Nazaraeus (Latin) The "Book of Adam" - the latter name meaning anthropos, Man or Humanity. The Nazarene faith ...
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Trinity:
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Trinity The divine powers at the head of every theogony. In the Christian Trinity, the original idea of a triune divinity is preserved...
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Eye In The Pyramid:
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Eye In The Pyramid
EYE IN THE PYRAMID Actually, the radiating eye occupies a triangle which is not really part of the pyramid, but just resting at its to...
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Ahura-mazda:
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Ahura-Mazda (Avestan) Aura-Mazda (Old Persian) Auhr-Mazd (Pahlavi) Hormazd, Hormoz, Ormazd, Ormuzd (Persian) (from Avestan ahura lord ...
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Jacob Boehme, Jakob Bohme:
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Jacob Boehme, Jakob Bohme
Jacob Boehme, Jakob Bohme (1575-1624). Great German mystic philosopher, one of those individuals who, showing unusual spiritual insigh...
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Morals - Morality:
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Morals, Morality What is the basis of morals? This is the most important que...
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Morals - Morality:
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Fire:
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Fire Fire has been venerated in all ages as the symbol of spirit as opposed to matter. Its essence or substance is spirit; with essent...
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Shad Darshana:
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shad darshana: (Sanskrit) "Six views or insights; six philosophies." Among the hundreds of Hindu darshanas known thr...
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Hinduism:
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Hinduism (Hindu Dharma): (Sanskrit) India's indigenous religious and cultural system, followed today by nearly one billion adherents, ...
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Man:
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Man Man is in his essence a spark of the central kosmic spiritual fire. Man being an insep...
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Time:
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TIME Adeste, O Tempora Omnia! ("Be now, All Ye Times!") According to Merlin and others, mortals tend to face the opposite di...
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Philosophy Of Dreams Vii: Lord Creates Dream Objects
Some Indian philosophers hold that the creation of chariots etc. in the dream is verily by the Lord and not by the human self. The dream ...
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Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Etymologies
The current English word "soul" may have originated from Old English sawol, documented in 970 AD, which has possible etymological links w...
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Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Etymologies
The current English word "soul" may have originated from Old English sawol, documented in 970 AD, which has possible etymological links w...
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