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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALINGENESIS (Gr. -raw, again, 14vevcr, becoming, See also:birth) , a See also:term used in See also:philosophy, See also:theology and See also:biology. In philosophy it denotes in its broadest sense the theory (e.g. of the Pythagoreans) that the human soul does not See also:die with the See also:body but is " See also:born again " in new incarnations. It is thus the See also:equivalent of See also:metempsychosis (q.v.). The term has a narrower and more specific use in the See also:system of See also:Schopenhauer, who applies it to his See also:doctrine that the will does not die but manifests itself afresh in new individuals. He thus repudiates the See also:primitive metempsychosis doctrine which maintains the reincarnation of the particular soul. The word " palingenesis " or rather " palingenesia " may be traced back to the See also:Stoics, who used the term for the continual re-creation of the universe by the Demiurgus (Creator) after its absorption into himself. Similarly See also:Philo speaks of. See also:Noah and his sons as leaders of a " renovation " or " re-birth " of the See also:earth. See also:Josephus uses the term of the See also:national restoration of the See also:Jews, See also:Plutarch of the transmigration of souls, and See also:Cicero of his own return from See also:exile. In the New Testament the properly theological sense of spiritual regeneration is found, though the word itself occurs only twice; and it is used by the See also:church fathers, e.g. for the rite of See also:baptism or for the See also:state of repentance. In See also:modern biology (e.g.

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Haeckel and Fritz See also:Muller) " palingenesis " has been used for the exact See also:reproduction of ancestral features by See also:inheritance, as opposed to "kenogenesis" (Gr. Kawos new), in which the inherited characteristics are modified by environment.

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