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See also:PALINGENESIS (Gr. -raw, again, 14vevcr, becoming, See also:birth)
, a See also:term used in See also:philosophy, See also:theology and See also:biology
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In philosophy it denotes in its broadest sense the theory (e.g. of the Pythagoreans) that the human soul does not See also:die with the See also:body but is " See also:born again " in new incarnations
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It is thus the See also:equivalent of See also:metempsychosis (q.v.)
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The term has a narrower and more specific use in the See also:system of See also:Schopenhauer, who applies it to his See also:doctrine that the will does not die but manifests itself afresh in new individuals
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He thus repudiates the See also:primitive metempsychosis doctrine which maintains the reincarnation of the particular soul
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The word " See also:palingenesis " or rather " palingenesia " may be traced back to the See also:Stoics, who used the term for the continual re-creation of the universe by the Demiurgus (Creator) after its absorption into himself
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Similarly See also:Philo speaks of
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See also:Noah and his sons as leaders of a " renovation " or " re-See also:birth " of the See also:earth
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See also:Josephus uses the term of the See also:national restoration of the See also:Jews, See also:Plutarch of the transmigration of souls, and See also:Cicero of his own return from See also:exile
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In the New Testament the properly theological sense of spiritual regeneration is found, though the word itself occurs only twice; and it is used by the See also: Kawos new), in which the inherited characteristics are modified by environment . |
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