The Immortality of the Soul and the Death (and Resurrection) of Art in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-110
Keyword(s):  
Immortality Of The Soul

Title of the Paper-Concept of Soul in the Meno

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (11) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Ranjit Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Main Question ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

Meno belongs to the earlier dialogues of Plato. This dialogue deals with the concept of virtue and the recollective argument for the immortality of the soul. The main question  of the Meno is whether virtue can be taught or not. Plato’s Socrates presents  this concept by demonstrating the example of the slave boy. In this dialogue, Plato’s Socrates tries to connect the concept of Virtue and knowledge with the concept of soul.

Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Keyword(s):  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

In this chapter, Gregory’s treatment of the soul is examined against the backdrop of philosophical treatises On the Soul and in conversation with Origen’s psychology and On the Resurrection (while Origen never wrote On the Soul, for reasons that are here clarified). Tertullian composed both On the Soul and On the Resurrection; Gregory combined the two discussions in a remake of Plato’s Phaedo on the immortality of the soul—here analysed in many of its philosophical components and their treatment until Plotinus and Proclus, and in light of Gregory’s definition of soul and relation between resurrection and restoration. The chapter examines the role of the soul in Gregory’s ‘theology of freedom’—rooted in Plato’s philosophy—and the influence Gregory exerted on Evagrius’ theories of the threefold resurrection and of the subsumption of body into soul and soul into ‘unified nous’: Eriugena was right to trace the latter theory back to Gregory.

II.—THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Mind ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol LIX (233) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
A. H. BASSON
Keyword(s):  
Immortality Of The Soul

Een beetje onsterfelijk

Lampas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-452
Author(s):  
Gerard Boter
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

Summary The present article discusses three hotly debated interpretational issues in Diotima´s speech in Plato´s Symposium. The first of these is the relationship of Diotima´s speech to other dialogues, such as the Phaedo and the Republic, with regard to the immortality of the soul. It is argued that there is no discrepancy at all, because the immortality of the soul does not play any role in the Symposium. The second issue is the nature of the three classes of posterity: biological, spiritual and philosophical. Whereas the posterity of the first two classes can be relatively easily defined, the character of the philosopher´s posterity, ‘true virtue’, remains rather vague. It may consist in dialectical teaching of the Idea of Beauty by Socrates. Thirdly, it is argued that the philosopher´s immortality differs only gradually from the immortality of the other two classes, that is, the philosopher as a man only survives by means of his posterity.

Socratic Suicide

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Warren
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Commit Suicide ◽  
Better Than

AbstractWhen is it rational to commit suicide? More specifically, when is it rational for a Platonist to commit suicide, and more worryingly, is it ever not rational for a Platonist to commit suicide? If the Phaedo wants us to learn that the soul is immortal, and that philosophy is a preparation for a state better than incarnation, then why does it begin with a discussion defending the prohibition of suicide? In the course of that discussion, Socrates offers (but does not necessarily endorse) two arguments for the prohibition of self-killing, at least in most circumstances, which have exerted a long and powerful influence over subsequent discussion of the topic, particularly in theist contexts. In the context of the Phaedo itself, however, this introductory conversation plays a crucial role in setting the agenda for the remainder of the dialogue and offering an initial discussion of the major concerns of the argument as a whole. In particular, the discussion of the nature of suicide is intimately bound up with Socrates' conception of true philosophy as a ‘preparation for death’, the relationship between soul and body, and the immortality of the soul. My intention is to provide a reading of that passage (61e-69e) which asks whether the Phaedo can offer a philosophically satisfying distinction between suicide and philosophy and how it relates to other ancient philosophical attitudes to self-killing. I argue that Socrates does not think that being dead is always preferable to being alive, and that the religious views expressed in the passage are consistent with his general stance on the benevolence of the gods.

scholarly journals The etymological reconstruction of the concept of "reincarnation"

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
L. Kompaniec
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
A Value ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Existential Issues

The idea of ​​reincarnation, the belief in the possibility of reincarnation is now one of the most interesting topics. She increasingly attracts the attention of philosophical, religious, and above all scientific thought. It is difficult not to agree with the depth of the circle of existential issues that it covers, because it is a whole range of problems of human existence: despair, life and death, hope, immortality of the soul. As a result, on the basis of attempts to follow the ways of their solution, vital projects of cultures, valuable landmarks are lined up. In the scale of religious values, the idea of ​​immortality of the soul is in higher hierarchical layers as a goal and an ideal, a condition for the achievement of the otherworldly, kingdom of God. In the context of this gradation, the phenomenon of reincarnation, as containing the idea of ​​eternal existence of the soul, has a value aspect, succinctly fits into the hypothetical problem of human immortality and, in our opinion, requires more in-depth study.

Naked or Clothed? Eschatology and the Doctrine of Creation

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Young
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Apocalyptic Literature ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Full Circle ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

A Paper on life after death in the early church should probably begin with the underworld: Sheol in the Hebrew Bible, Hades, in Greek mythology, with parallels in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. It should reflect on the universally connected theme of judgment and its importance for theodicy, and address the wide variety of beliefs discernible in the New Testament and its background, especially in the apocalyptic literature. It should consider the so-called intermediate state, and the supposed distinction between the Greek concept of the immortality of the soul and the Hebrew idea of resurrection: which takes us full circle, since the latter notion assumes the picture of shades in the underworld brought back to full-bodied living – as indeed the traditional Anastasis icon of the Eastern Orthodox tradition makes dramatically clear, Christ springing up from the grave and hauling Adam up with one hand and, often though not invariably, Eve with the other.

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