This side
The definition of “this side”, like its counterword “beyond”, has become a substantiated religious-philosophical term: this side - in general often related to the reality of nature - and the hereafter - generally mostly related to the “other” ( divine ) reality .
The two words generally imply that what is meant is abstract, non-illustrative. You set a boundary line that divides the world as a whole into two "areas" where this side of the area, the speaker is in the, and Beyond the others. This border is usually identified with the line of death. The here and now fall out of the world view of metaphysics and of many religions attributions such as "natural, finally, sensual, provisionally" to, the afterlife "heaven, eternal, spiritual, (final) valid" such as. This is disputed by many non-religious humanists and free thinkers , in whose imagination human life exists only in this world or exclusively in a single natural reality.
In the so-called “doubled” view of the world, a double view of the human being (see anthropology ) can correspond to a ( according to imagination or belief ) at the same time a “this-worldly” (transitory) and “other-worldly” (eternal) state of being.
The world religions and many other religions assume a reality here and there. The typical characteristics of a religion can be shown in particular in its description, relationship determination and demarcation between this world and the hereafter.
The majority of philosophical systems also contain the relationship between this world and the hereafter in some form. Some thinkers who are pointedly “this side” refer at least negatively to ideas of the hereafter.
Magazine this side of the Humanist Association of Germany
The Humanistic Association of Germany has been publishing the magazine diesseits - Das humanistische Magazin since 1987 , and has been supplemented by an online magazine since 2011.
