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- Etymology
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Unanswerable question
- Two Truths
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Islamic philosophy (<span lang="ar-Latn">''falsafa''</span>)
- Theology (<span lang="ar-Latn">''kalam''</span>)
- Ismailism
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Shamanism
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Philosophy
- Socrates and Plato<!--Linked from 'Emanationism'-->
- Aristotle
- Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis
- Thomas Aquinas
- Immanuel Kant
- Contemporary philosophy
- Psychology
- Parapsychology
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|Depiction of the soul leaving the body at the moment of death: The Grave (poem)|The Grave, illustrated by [[William Blake, engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1808]]
In religion and philosophy, the soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. Anthropologists and psychologists have found that most humans believe in the existence of a soul or spirit, and that they have cross-culturally distinguished between soul (or spirit) and body.