Self, death and afterlife.

Created by: keirajpa
Created on: 22-02-21 21:26

Allegory

For example: a piece of literature which has
hidden / symbolic meaning.

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Forms

Plato’s Theory of Forms is that everything in the physical universe is a particular instance of a perfect idea in the metaphysical world of Forms, so every particular chair is a chair by virtue of being a particular instance of the perfect form of a chair

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Objective immortality

The belief (in Process Theology) that every living thing exists for ever in the mind of God, because they are literally objects ‘in’ God.

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Panentheism

The philosophical view that everything
that there is exists ‘in God’.

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Purgatory

A (particularly Catholic) doctrine of an intermediate state after death in which those who are destined to enter heaven are punished / purified in order to make them worthy of heaven.

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Reincarnation

The belief (found in Plato and Hinduism, for example) that at death, the soul at some point is ‘re-enfleshed’ into another body

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Subjective immortality

The belief that after death
the thinking self continues as the same subject of
consciousness – the same ‘I’.

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Venial sin

A ‘forgivable’ sin that does not result in
separation from God and eternal damnation to hell (as opposed to ‘mortal sin’, which does result in this).

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Objective immortality

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Panentheism

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Purgatory

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Self, death and afterlife.