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Metempsychosis

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Metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. [1]

84 relations: Ad-Darazi, Afterlife, Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin, Alawites, Anamnesis (philosophy), Anan ben David, Ancient Greek philosophy, Annales (Ennius), Śramaṇa, Banian Hospital, Bardaisan, Camille Flammarion, Celibacy, Chantal Akerman, Charon's obol, Deism, Divine judgment, Druid, Early Irish literature, Emunoth ve-Deoth, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Eternal oblivion, Fourierism, Friedrich Solmsen, Ghulat, Giordano Bruno, Hippolyte Renaud, History of ethics in Ancient Greece, History of vegetarianism, Index of ancient philosophy articles, Index of philosophy articles (I–Q), Index of philosophy of religion articles, Indomania, Infinite Jest, Ippolito Desideri, Islam in Turkey, Jacob Qirqisani, Khurramites, Kurds, Le quattro volte, List of common misconceptions, List of extinct Shia sects, Maud Gonne, Megami Tensei, Metempsychosis (Yokoyama Taikan), Metzengerstein, Michael Psellos, Mind Stream, Mind–body dualism, Mnemosyne, ..., Myth of Er, Nontrinitarianism, Obscuro Barroco, Origen, Orphism (religion), Palingenesis, Pangool, Phaedrus (dialogue), Pherecydes of Syros, Phoenix (mythology), Pierre Leroux, Plato, Poor Dionis, Pythagoras, Rawandiyya, Rawendis, Reincarnation, Resurrection, Saṃsāra, Schools of Islamic theology, Sotion (Pythagorean), Spiritism, Spirits in prison, Stereotypes of South Asians, Tamil mythology, Tertullian, The Gentleman in Black, The New Church (Swedenborgian), The Spirits Book, Theory of forms, Western philosophy, Ya’furiyya Shia, Yarsanism, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Expand index (34 more) »

Ad-Darazi

Muhammad bin Ismail Nashtakin ad-Darazi (محمد بن اسماعيل نشتاكين الدرازي) was an 11th-century Ismaili preacher and early leader of the Druze faith who was labeled a heretic in 1016 and subsequently executed in 1018 by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

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Afterlife

Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.

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Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin

Baha'uddin 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ad-Dayf, also known as Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin, Baha'uddin al-Muqtana, Bahā'a ad-Dīn, Bahā'a ad-Dīn, Ali ibn Ahmad, Baha' al-Din, Ali ibn ad-Dayf, Ali b ad-Tai or Baha'u d-Din as-Samuqi (born 979 – died 1043 CE) was an 11th-century Ismaili, and founding leader of the Druze.

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Alawites

The Alawis, also rendered as Alawites (علوية Alawiyyah/Alawīyah), are a syncretic sect of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, primarily centered in Syria.

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Anamnesis (philosophy)

In philosophy, anamnesis (ἀνάμνησις) is a concept in Plato's epistemological and psychological theory that he develops in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo, and alludes to in his Phaedrus.

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Anan ben David

Anan Ben David (c. 715 - c. 795) (ענן בן דוד) is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism.

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Ancient Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC and continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Ancient Greece was part of the Roman Empire.

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Annales (Ennius)

Annales is the name of a highly fragmentary Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Ennius in the 2nd century BC.

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Śramaṇa

Śramaṇa (Sanskrit: श्रमण; Pali: samaṇa) means "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic".

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Banian Hospital

The origin of the Banian Hospital in Western writing has been traced back to Henry Lord's A Display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies.

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Bardaisan

Bardaisan (ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, Bardaiṣān), also known in Arabic as ابن ديصان (Ibn Daisan), also Latinized as Bardesanes, was a Syriac or ParthianProds Oktor Skjaervo.

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Camille Flammarion

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin, cælibatus") is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York.

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Charon's obol

Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial.

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Deism

Deism (or; derived from Latin "deus" meaning "god") is a philosophical belief that posits that God exists and is ultimately responsible for the creation of the universe, but does not interfere directly with the created world.

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Divine judgment

Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings within a religion.

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Druid

A druid (derwydd; druí; draoidh) was a member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures.

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Early Irish literature

Early Irish literature is the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe.

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Emunoth ve-Deoth

The Book of Beliefs and Opinions (completed 933) is a text written by Saadia Gaon which is the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism.

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Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau

Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau (2 March 1842 in Madrid – 7 September 1902 in Oloron) was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote plays, zarzuelas (light operas), and novels including the first story involving time travel using a machine.

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Eternal oblivion

In philosophy, eternal oblivion (also referred to as non-existence or nothingness) is the permanent cessation of one's consciousness upon death.

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Fourierism

Fourierism is the systematic set of economic, political, and social beliefs first espoused by French intellectual Charles Fourier (1772–1837).

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Friedrich Solmsen

Friedrich W. Solmsen (February 4, 1904 – January 30, 1989) was a philologist and professor of classical studies.

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Ghulat

Ghulāt (lit, singular ghālī) is a term used in the theology of Shia Islam to describe some minority Muslim groups who either ascribe divine characteristics to figures of Islamic history (usually a member of the Ahl al-Bayt) or hold beliefs deemed deviant by mainstream Shi'i theology.

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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; 1548 – 17 February 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist.

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Hippolyte Renaud

Claude Hélène Hippolyte Renaud (1803–1874) was a French artillery officer, utopian socialist and journalist.

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History of ethics in Ancient Greece

Ethical theory in Greek culture predates philosophical reflection.

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History of vegetarianism

Vegetarianism has its roots in the civilizations of ancient India and ancient Greece.

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Index of ancient philosophy articles

This page is a list of topics in ancient philosophy.

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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)

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Index of philosophy of religion articles

This is a list of articles in philosophy of religion.

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Indomania

Indomania or Indophilia refer to the special interest India, Indians and Indian culture have generated in the Western world, more specifically the culture and civilisation of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Germany.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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Ippolito Desideri

Ippolito Desideri or Hippolyte Desideri (21 December 1684 – 14 April 1733) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and traveller and the most famous of the early European missionaries to visit Tibet.

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Islam in Turkey

Islam in Turkey, The established presence of Islam in the region that now constitutes modern Turkey dates back to the latter half of the 11th century, when the Seljuks started expanding into eastern Anatolia.

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Jacob Qirqisani

Jacob Qirqisani (Heb. Ya'akov ben Ephraim ha-Tzerqesi; Arab. Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Qirkisani) was a Karaite dogmatist and exegete who flourished in the first half of the tenth century.

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Khurramites

The Khurramites (خرمدینان Khorram-Dīnân, meaning "those of the Joyful Religion") were an IranianW.

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Kurds

The Kurds (rtl, Kurd) or the Kurdish people (rtl, Gelî kurd), are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan).

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Le quattro volte

Le quattro volte ("The Four Times") is an Italian film, made in 2010, about life in the remote mountain town of Caulonia, in southern Italy.

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List of common misconceptions

This list of common misconceptions corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics.

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List of extinct Shia sects

The following is a list of extinct sects of Shia Islam.

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Maud Gonne

Maud Gonne MacBride (Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mac Giolla Bhríghde, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress.

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Megami Tensei

Megami Tensei, marketed internationally as Shin Megami Tensei (formerly Revelations), is a Japanese media franchise created by Kouji Okada (credited as Cozy Okada in English), Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki.

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Metempsychosis (Yokoyama Taikan)

, alternatively translated as The Wheel of Life, is a painting by Japanese Nihonga artist Yokoyama Taikan.

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Metzengerstein

"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" was the first short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe to see print.

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Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos or Psellus (translit; Michaël Psellus) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant, writer, philosopher, politician and historian.

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Mind Stream

Mind Stream (citta-santāna) in Buddhist philosophy is the moment-to-moment continuum (Sanskrit: saṃtāna) of sense impressions and mental phenomena, which is also described as continuing from one life to another.

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Mind–body dualism

Mind–body dualism, or mind–body duality, is a view in the philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical,Hart, W.D. (1996) "Dualism", in A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, ed.

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Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology.

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Myth of Er

The Myth of Er is a legend that concludes Plato's Republic (10.614–10.621).

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Nontrinitarianism

Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity—the teaching that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being, or essence (from the Greek ousia).

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Obscuro Barroco

Obscuro Barroco is a documentary film, directed by Evangelia Kranioti and released in 2018.

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Origen

Origen of Alexandria (184 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was a Hellenistic scholar, ascetic, and early Christian theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria.

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Orphism (religion)

Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ὀρφικά) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, as well as by the Thracians, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.

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Palingenesis

Palingenesis (or palingenesia) is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology.

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Pangool

Pangool (in Serer and Cangin) singular: Fangool (var: Pangol and Fangol), are the ancient saints and ancestral spirits of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

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Phaedrus (dialogue)

The Phaedrus (Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues.

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Pherecydes of Syros

Pherecydes of Syros (Φερεκύδης ὁ Σύριος; fl. 6th century BC) was a Greek thinker from the island of Syros.

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Phoenix (mythology)

In Greek mythology, a phoenix (φοῖνιξ, phoînix) is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.

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Pierre Leroux

Pierre Henri Leroux (7 April 1797 – 12 April 1871), French philosopher, and political economist, was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan.

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Poor Dionis

Poor Dionis or Poor Dionysus (Sărmanul Dionis, originally spelled Sermanul Dionisie; Valentin Coșereanu,, in Caiete Critice, Nr. 6/2010, p. 23 also translated as Wretched Dionysus or The Sorrowful Dionis) is an 1872 prose work by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, classified by scholars as either a novel, a novella or a modern fairy tale.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of the Pythagoreanism movement.

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Rawandiyya

Al Rawandiyya, Rawandians, or Ravendians is a term referring to a minority sect of Shi'i origin that originated in Khorasan during the Abbasid rule.

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Rawendis

Rawendis or Rwendi, a Persian sect that took its name from a town (Rawend) near Isfahan.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Resurrection

Resurrection is the concept of coming back to life after death.

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Saṃsāra

Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" or "world", with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change.

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Schools of Islamic theology

Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding aqidah (creed).

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Sotion (Pythagorean)

Sotion (Σωτίων, gen.: Σωτίωνος; fl. 1st century), a native of Alexandria, was a Neopythagorean philosopher who lived in the age of Tiberius.

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Spiritism

Spiritism is a spiritualistic religion codified in the 19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the codename Allan Kardec; it proposed the study of "the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world".

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Spirits in prison

The spirits in prison is a recurrent minor subject in the writings of Christianity.

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Stereotypes of South Asians

Stereotypes of South Asians are broadly believed impressions about individuals of South Asian origin that are often inconsistent with reality.

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Tamil mythology

Tamil mythology means the stories and sacred narratives belonging to the Tamil people.

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Tertullian

Tertullian, full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, c. 155 – c. 240 AD, was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

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The Gentleman in Black

The Gentleman in Black is a two-act comic opera written in 1870 with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay.

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The New Church (Swedenborgian)

The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) is the name for several historically related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious movement, informed by the writings of scientist and Swedish Lutheran theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).

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The Spirits Book

The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French) is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works of Spiritism.

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Theory of forms

The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is Plato's argument that non-physical (but substantial) forms (or ideas) represent the most accurate reality.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Ya’furiyya Shia

The Ya’furiyya Shia (named for Muhammad ibn Ya’fur, to whom they were related) was a ghulat sect of Shia Islam.

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Yarsanism

The Yarsan or Ahl-e Haqq (Kurdish:, Yarsan, اهل حق Ahl-e Haqq "People of Truth"), is a syncretic religion founded by Sultan Sahak in the late 14th century in western Iran.

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are a collection of 196 Indian sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metempsychosis

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