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Philosophy of religion
- MonotheismThe word monotheism is a combination of the Greek monos meaning single and theos meaning god. This compound term appears only in Modern Greek, with a single…
- PolytheismThe word polytheism comes from the Greek roots poly meaning many and theos meaning god. A Jewish writer named Philo of Alexandria coined this term in…
- Free willA biker performing a dirt jump illustrates how some interpretations view free will as the capacity to choose between different possible courses of action.
- SatipatthanaThe word satipatthana appears in the Pali Canon as a compound term that scholars have parsed in two distinct ways. One parsing reads it as presence of…
- AfterlifeThe afterlife is a postulated existence where the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after physical…