Immortality


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1 The desire for immortality, the fear of death.
2 The knowledge of immortality, arguments for and against personal survival.
3 Belief in immortality.
4 The postulation of immortality, practical grounds for belief in immortality.
5 The revelation of immortality, immortality as an article of religious faith.
6 The moral significance of immortality, rewards and sanctions.
7 Conceptions of the afterlife.
8 The transmigration of souls, reincarnation.
9 The state of the soul apart from the body.
10 The judgment of souls.
11 The process of purification, the state of purgatory.
12 The state of the damned, hell.
13 The state of the blessed, heaven.
14 The resurrection of the body.
15 Doctrines of impersonal survival.
16 Immortality through offspring, the perpetuation of the species.
17 Enduring fame, survival in the memory.
18 Participation in the eternity of truth, ideas, or love.


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