When souls had wings : pre-mortal existence in Western thought
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| Autore: |
Givens Terryl
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| Titolo: |
When souls had wings : pre-mortal existence in Western thought
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 388 p.) : ill., ports |
| Disciplina: | 129 |
| Soggetto topico: | Soul |
| Pre-existence | |
| Religion - General | |
| Religion | |
| Philosophy & Religion | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Ancient Near Eastern traditions -- Classical variants -- Philo to Christian beginnings -- Neo-Platonism and the church fathers -- Augustine and the formation of orthodoxy -- Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Cambridge Platonists and the Miltonic heritage -- The Cartesian aftermath -- Philosophy and theology 1800-1900 -- Romanticism and transcendentalism 1800-1900 -- Preexistence in the modern age -- Parallel paradigms. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The notion that we spring into existence ex nihilo at birth strikes many people as counter-intuitive. By contrast, the idea that we have an eternal identity appeals to some deep intuition about the self. And indeed, belief in the soul's pre-mortal existence has a long history in Western thought. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | When souls had wings |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When souls had wings : pre-mortal existence in Western thought |
| ISBN: | 9780199871933 (ebook) : |
| 0199871930 (ebook) : | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154336903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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