self, death and afterlife

Question 1

allegory

Answer 1

EG a piece of literature which has hidden/symbolic meaning

Question 2

Forms

Answer 2

Plato’s theory of the Forms is that everything in physical universe is a particular instance of a perfect idea in the metaphysical world of Forms,
so every particular chair is a chair by virtue of being a particular instance the perfect form of a chair

Question 3

objective immortality

Answer 3

process theology belief—- that every living thing exists for ever in the mind of God, because they are literally objects ‘in’ God

Question 4

panentheism

Answer 4

philosophical view that everything that there is exists in God

Question 5

purgatory

Answer 5

largely catholic— doctrine of an intermediate state after death which those who are destined to enter heaven are purified through punishment to make them worthy of heaven

Question 6

reincarnation

Answer 6

the belief that at death, the soul at some point is reinfleshed into another body—– found in plato and hinduism

Question 7

subjective immortality

Answer 7

the belief that after death the thinking self continues as the same subject of consciousness — the same ‘i’

Question 8

venial sin

Answer 8

a forgivable sin- that does not result in eternal damnation and separation from God in hell
as opposed to moral sin which does result in this