Section A

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Afterlife
Continuation of existance after death
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Animal rights
(the principle of) treating animals fairly
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Commonality (of all living beings)
(The belief that) all living creatures are part of the same process of development
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Cyclical (view of human existance)
(The belief that) time has no beginning or end that the soul of human beings is reborn again and again
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Determinism
(The view that) every event has a cause, which may also involve believing that human beings cannot have free will, as their choices and actions are caused
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Dominance (of human beings)
(The belief that) human beings have been given the right to exercise control over all other living beings
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Free will
(The belief that) the human will is free, so human beings can choose and act freely
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Greed
An excessive desire for things, such as wealth or food, which bears no relation to actual needs
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Human destiny
The future of human beings/what happens to them when they die
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Ignorance (in relations to wrongdoing)
Not knowing or understanding the difference between right and wrong, or what makes action wrong
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Immortality
The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
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Judgement (by God)
The decision of God about the destiny of human beings
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Law of cause and effect (in relation to human actions)
(The belief that) every human action has an automatic consequence
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Linear (view of human existance)
(The belief that) time has a beginning and an end, and that human beings live only once on earth
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Physicalism
(The belief that) the real world is nothing more than the physical world
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Predestination (by God)
(The belief that) God has already decided the fate of human beings
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Rebirth
(The belief that) the soul is reborn into another body
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Resurrection
(The belief that) after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
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Selfishness
Self-interest and concern with individual needs/wants that excludes considering those of others
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Sin
Behaviour that is against the law of God
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Soul
The spiritual or non-material part of a person
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