Nature and Immortality of the Soul
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10417969" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10417969 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_364-1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_364-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_364-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_364-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nature and Immortality of the Soul
Original language description
From Antiquity, philosophers have associated the destiny of the soul with its nature: the materiality or the immateriality of the soul is critical when deciding whether (I) it is distinguishable from or identical to the body, (II) a part of it, (III) and/or a part that survives the body. But what is the soul? To put it in simple terms, it is the set of operations that a living being can accomplish during its life. In this respect, "soul" encompasses activities that range from breathing and sleeping to thinking about Pythagoras' theorem or about one's beloved. If the soul is material, constituted by elements that undergo generation and corruption, the soul will follow the destiny of its component parts. Such is the position held by the atomist Democritus of Abdera (460-400/380 B.C.): every existing thing is made up by material indivisible and invisible components, whose aggregations form...
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů