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Soul

In religion and philosophy, the soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. Anthropologists and psychologists have found that most humans believe in the existence of a soul or spirit, and that they have cross-culturally distinguished between the soul (or…

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Soul

Nodes279
Edges278
Triples303
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007168
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related to Christianity · 22
Soul → Apostle, At, Believers, Christ, Christians, Dei, For, Genesis, God, God's, Hebrews, However, Jewish, Paul, Revelation, Savior, Septuagint, Spirit, The, The Bible
related to Islam · 22
Soul → Al-Bag, Allah, Arus, Attribution, Christian, God, Hebrew, In, Islam, It, Jawahir, Lane's Lexicon, Lastly, Lisān, Muslim, Pauline, Qamus, Quran, The, The Taj
related to Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis · 19
Soul → Arab, Aristotelian, Avicenna, Avicenna's, Avicennian, Floating, Following Aristotle, He, Ibn, Ibn Sina, In, Muslims, Nafis, René Descartes, Some, The Ten Intellects, They, This, While
related to Buddhism · 19
Soul → Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhists, Cetana-sutta, Desire, Due, Early Buddhists, From, In, In Buddhism, It, Jainism, Since, The, The Buddha, The Mahavedalla-sutta, They, This, Through
related to Philosophy · 19
Soul → Ancient Greek, Apology, Aristotle, At, Athenians, Cornford, Depending, Erwin Rohde, Francis, Greek, Greeks, Hades, Latin, Pindar, Plato, Pythagorean, Socrates, The, Western
related to Psychology · 19
Soul → According, American, As, Becker, Death, Echoing, Ernest Becker's, He, In, In The Denial, Jesse Bering, Just, Nicholas Humphrey, Otto Rank's, Rank, Rank's, Seelenglaube, Steward Goetz, Søren Kierkegaard
related to Etymology · 18
Soul → De Consolatione Philosophiae, Dutch, German Seele, Germanic, Gothic, In, In King Alfred's, Old English, Old Frisian, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Oxford English Dictionary, Present-day, The, The English, The Old English, Vespasian Psalter
related to Aristotle · 17
Soul → Another, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Bios, De Anima, For, For Aristotle, In, In Aristotle's, On, Pseuchë, Psuchë, Psūchê, The, This, Using, Zoë
related to Judaism · 15
Soul → At, Christian, Common Era, English, Greek, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Jewish, Rabbinical, Robert Alter, Talmud, The, The Hebrew, This, Ultimately
related to Shamanism · 15
Soul → African, Ancient Egyptians, Austronesian, Belief, Chinese, In, It, Its, Native North Americans, Northern Eurasian, Proto-Austronesian, Shamanism, South Asian, The, Tibetan

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body self death human one souls life physical two spirit also philosophy person living aristotle view existence nature plato nafs

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Soulis aimmaterial aspect or essence of a living being0.90text
Soulis aincomplete person0.90text
Soulis afoundation for later Muslim treatises on ethics and psychology.Islamic philosophy0.90text
Soulis apotential angel or potential demon0.90text
Soulis aessence0.90text
Soulis aself-mover0.90text
Soulis abearer of moral properties0.90text
Soulis aorganization of the form and matter of a natural being which allows it to strive for its full actualization0.90text
Soulis aconsequence of its nature0.90text
nefeshinstance ofwhile Judaism employs multiple terms0.80text
neshamah to refer to the soulinstance ofwhile Judaism employs multiple terms0.80text
the Zhuangzi suggest the soul is not separate from the natural world but part of the flow of the Taoinstance ofwhile the thaumaturge Ye Fashan was said to have transformed into a sword and then into a column of smoke which rose to heaven.Taoist texts0.80text

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