Concept
Palingenesis
Overview
Palingenesis (; also palingenesia from Greek: παλιγγενεσία) is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Its meaning stems from Greek palin, meaning 'again', and genesis, meaning 'birth'.
In biology, it is another word for recapitulation – the largely discredited hypothesis that the development of an advanced individual organism mirrors the development of entire, more primitive species. In political theory, it is a central component of Roger Griffin's analysis of fascism as a fundamentally modernist ideology. In theology, the word may refer to reincarnation or to Christian spiritual rebirth.
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According to what has been said, the denial of the will to live, which is just what is called absolute, entire resignation, or holiness, always proceeds from that quieter of the will which the knowledge of its inner conflict and essential vanity, expressing themselves in the suffering of all living things, becomes. The difference, which we have represented as two paths, consists in whether that knowledge is called…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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I borrow an illustration to show my meaning: it is well to sail round many cities, but advantageous to live in the best. It was a witty remark of the philosopher Bion,[21] that, as those suitors who could not seduce Penelope took up with her maids as a _pis aller_, so those who cannot attain philosophy wear themselves out in useless pursuits. Philosophy, therefore, ought to be regarded as the most important branch…
Plutarch, Plutarch's Morals
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The observation of the processes of evolution in nature, not a consideration of an earlier philosophical system, suggested to Anaxagoras the doctrine, that _All originated from All;_ this was the conviction of the natural philosopher based upon a manifold, and at the bottom, of course, excessively inadequate induction. He proved it thus: if even the contrary could originate out of the contrary, _e.g.,_ the Black out…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
States what Palingenesis is.
Philosophers who discussed Palingenesis
Related ideas
- Jesus
- Fascism
- Sartor Resartus
- Greek language
- Gospel of Matthew
- German Empire
- Thomas Carlyle
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- Last Judgment
- Fin de siècle
- Robert Burton
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Lactantius
- Stoicism
- Benito Mussolini
- Philo
- Nazi Germany
- Noah
- Politics
- Political philosophy
- Sovereign state
- Plutarch
- Roman Empire
- Reincarnation
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Place in the tradition
Part of Fascism.