Talk:Present life

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The locative "this side", like its counterpart word "beyond", has become a religious-philosophical term in substantivized form: the this side' - generally often related to natural reality - and the beyond - generally usually related to the "other" (divine) reality.

The two words imply generally that what is meant is abstract, inconceivable. They set a boundary line dividing the world whole into two realms, where this world is the realm in which the speaker is, and beyond is the other. This boundary is usually identified with the line of death. This world falls from the worldview of metaphysics and many religions Attributions such as "natural, finite, sensual, provisional", to the beyond such as "heavenly, eternal, spiritual, (final) valid". This is disputed by many non-religious Humanists and Freethinkers, in whose conception human life exists only in this world or exclusively in a sole reality of nature.

In the so-called doubled view of the world, a double view of man (see Anthropology) can correspond to a state of existence (according to the very conception or Belief) that is at the same time this-side (transient) and other-side (eternal).

The World religions and many other religions assume a reality on this side and on the other side. The typicality of a religion can be shown in particular by its description, determination of the relationship and demarcation of this side and the other side.

Also the majority of the philosophical systems contain in some form the this-side-other-side relation. Some pointedly "this-side" thinkers make at least negative reference to ideas of the afterlife.

Ludwig Feuerbach regarded religion as anthropology and formulated an ethics of this world. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 19:41, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

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