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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
112 results for "After Virtue" — page 1 of 6
ZE_1_20 — Virtue Ethics Revival
The revival of virtue ethics in the second half of the twentieth century represents one of the most significant developments in modern moral philosophy — a return to Aristotelian character-based ethics that challenged th
ZE_1_04 — Virtue Ethics — Aristotle to MacIntyre
Virtue ethics is the ethical tradition that focuses not on rules for action (deontology — ZE_1_06) or on consequences (utilitarianism — ZE_1_05) but on character: What kind of person should I be? What human excellences (
A_3_10 — Egyptian Coffin Texts: Middle Kingdom Afterlife Spells
The Egyptian Coffin Texts are a corpus of approximately 1,185 funerary spells inscribed primarily on the interior surfaces of rectangular wooden coffins during Egypt's Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BCE, Dynasties 11–13).
INTERDOC_22 — Near-Death Experience, Afterlife Belief, and Cross-Cultural Evidence
[KEY FINDING] The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study — a four-year prospective study across 15 hospitals in the UK, US, and Austria, led by Sam Parnia (published 2014, Resuscitation) — found that 39% of 140 car
D_2_14 — Valley of the Kings: Royal Tombs and Afterlife Architecture
The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: Wadi al-Muluk; ancient Egyptian: Ta-sekhet-ma'at, "The Great Field") — a narrow, arid wadi on the west bank of the Nile opposite ancient Thebes (modern Luxor) in Upper Egypt — served as t
P_4_01 — Death and the Afterlife Across Cultures
Every known human culture has developed beliefs about what happens after death — making afterlife cosmology one of the most universal features of human thought. The major frameworks include: judgment and reward/punishmen
P_2_03 — Virtue Ethics
Virtue ethics — the moral theory centered on character rather than rules (deontology) or consequences (consequentialism) — asks not "What should I do?" but "What kind of person should I be?" Its roots lie in Aristotle's
ZE_1_16 — Epistemic Ethics: The Morality of Belief, Knowledge, and Intellectual Virtue
Epistemic ethics — the study of the moral dimensions of belief, knowledge-seeking, and intellectual conduct — addresses a fundamental question: do we have moral obligations regarding what we believe and how we form our b
ZE_1_17 — Epistemic Ethics and Intellectual Virtue
Epistemic ethics — the study of moral and ethical dimensions of knowledge, belief, and inquiry — examines our obligations as knowers: when we are responsible for what we believe, how we treat others as sources and recipi
N_1_10 — Orphic Mysteries Expanded: Gold Tablets and Afterlife Instructions
The Orphic tradition — a loosely connected set of religious beliefs, ritual practices, and eschatological texts associated with the mythical poet-prophet Orpheus — represents one of the most influential heterodox religio
A_4_39 — Egyptian Book of the Dead: Funerary Texts, Afterlife Geography, and Judgment of the Soul
The "Book of the Dead" (Pert em Heru, "Coming/Going Forth by Day") is a corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts — spells, hymns, incantations, and illustrated vignettes — designed to guide the deceased through the Duat
ZH_4_14 — Sky Burials, Celestial Afterlives, and Astral Religion
Across human cultures, the celestial realm — the sky, stars, Sun, and Moon — has been imagined as the destination of the soul after death, the abode of gods and ancestors, and the matrix of cosmic justice. Astral religio
E_5_07 — Post-Extinction Recovery Patterns: Adaptive Radiation After Mass Dying
Mass extinctions are not merely episodes of destruction — they fundamentally reshape the trajectory of life through the recovery dynamics that follow. Post-extinction recovery is typically slow (5–10 million years for fu
ZC_4_11 — Anthropology of Death: Mortuary Practices, Grief, and the Afterlife
The anthropology of death examines how human societies construct, perform, and give meaning to dying, death, the disposal of the dead, mourning, and beliefs about postmortem existence — revealing that mortuary practices
Y_2_14 — Dying Process Phenomenology: Shared Death Experiences and After-Death Communication
The phenomenology of death and the experiences reported by those who witness the dying process include several distinct categories of altered-state phenomena that extend beyond the well-known near-death experience (NDE).
A_2_08 — Zoroastrian Influence on Abrahamic Religions
The proposition that Zoroastrianism fundamentally shaped the theological development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — particularly the concepts of cosmic dualism, Satan, angelology, bodily resurrection, final judgme
A_4_18 — Confucian Analects: Foundations of East Asian Thought
The Analects (Lúnyǔ 論語, "Collected Sayings") is the foundational text of Confucianism, comprising 20 books of aphorisms, dialogues, and biographical fragments attributed to Confucius (Kǒngzǐ 孔子, 551–479 BCE) and compiled
A_4_16 — Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) and Bon Tradition
The Bardo Thodol (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, "Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State"), popularly known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a collection of funerary texts attributed to the 8th-century Indian master Pa
A_3_03 — Egyptian Book of the Dead and Funerary Literature
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Pert em Hru — "Coming Forth by Day") is a collection of ~200 magical spells, hymns, and instructions designed to guide the deceased through the Duat (underworld) and into eternal life in th
A_3_02 — The Egyptian Pyramid Texts: Oldest Religious Literature on Earth
The Pyramid Texts are the oldest substantial body of Egyptian funerary literature ever discovered and among the oldest substantial religious corpora of any civilization — inscribed on the interior walls of Old Kingdom py
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