Philosophy of Megaten Encyclopedia

This encyclopedia exists to detail the works compiled by beadman (and associates) relating to the themes or lore of the shin megami tensei series, and its various spinoffs.

The purpose of this encyclopedia is multifaceted. The pages here detail information about the in-game content of the games, as well as the ways the thematic content ties in to the real life philosophies or religions they derive from. But it also contains general information about these religions or philosophies themselves, enough to get a general idea of the full thing that is being referenced. Enough that it can also be used as a quick overview of the various philosophies or religions in general.

This information about the religions does not go into infinite depth about aspects that are not directly game-related, but is streamlined to cover most of the major highlights of the things being discussed quickly to give a more rounded understanding of the religions as a whole. Which is useful for context of understanding how they are referenced in-game. Note however that this encyclopedia does not contain the plot synopsis of any games, as those are already not difficult to come by. But it will detail certain aspects of the plots or lore, especially as they relate to the themes.

## Search

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## Pages on the encyclopedia

### Philosophy

#### Side specific

1: Ethics and politics of alignments

2: Spiritual concepts of the sides

3: Theistic perspectives of the alignments

4: Panentheism and the great will

5: Symbols and aesthetics of the sides

6: Outfits and locations of the sides

7: Transhumanism

8: Environmentalism and ecology

9: Binary oppositions

#### General

10: Demons, metaphysics, and cosmology

11: Physics and philosophy of physics

12: Hegel and Hegelianism

13: Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism

14: Philosophy of technology

15: Powerscaling

#### Mind

16: Philosophy of mind

17: Philosophy of agency and free will

18: Carl Jung

19: Other psychology and sociology

20: Sexuality and gender

21: Death

22: Phenomenology

23: Existentialism

### Culture

24: Japanese Culture

25: Jedi and Sith

26: Cthulhu Mythos

27: Movie and literature references

### Religion

#### Abrahamic

28: Christianity and Judaism

29: Heterodox Christianity

30: Gnosticism

31: Kabbalah

32: Hermetic order of the golden dawn

33: Dead sea scrolls

34: The Divine Comedy

35: Knights Templar

36: Islam

37: Alchemy

38: Satanism

#### Eastern

39: Buddhism and Hinduism

40: Shinto

41: Taoism

42: Japanese new religions

43: Shugendo

44: Confucianism

45: Mohism

46: Cao Dai

47: Other Chinese religion

#### Greek

48: Greek mythology

49: Plato (and legacy)

50: Aristotle (and legacy)

51: Stoicism

52: Epicureanism

53: Pythagoreanism

54: Other philosophy schools

#### Other religion

55: Comparative mythology

56: Norse mythology

57: Irish mythology

58: Sumerian-Babylonian mythology

59: Canaanite religion

60: Zoroastrianism

61: Mithraic mysteries

62: Egyptian mythology

63: Native american religion

64: Theosophy and New Age

65: UFO religion

66: Tarot

67: Astrology

68: Modern paganism

## Ancillary pages

The pages in this section are pages that are not directly about megaten games, but are about media that either has a direct relation to megaten, or closely related themes.

1: Devilman

2: Undertale

3: Doki Doki Literature Club

4: Neon Genesis Evangelion

5: Chrono Cross

6: Rabbits

**Relevant Links**

* The megaten discord.
	+ https://discord.com/invite/8NGChWAcsY
* The megaten subreddit.
	+ https://www.reddit.com/r/Megaten/
* Dijeh translations, a blog detailing translations of many atlus interviews.
	+ https://dijehtranslations.wordpress.com/author/dijehblog/
* Kaneko's crib notes, a tumblr showcasing many of the artistic inspirations gone into individual demons,
	+ https://kanekocribs.tumblr.com/
* Eirikrjs, a blog doing very in detail articles about specific topics.
	+ https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/
* Kid crepes, a youtube channel detailing some related information, but where he has to learn it from interviews instead of just knowing it.
	+ https://www.youtube.com/c/KidCapes
* The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, the most in depth philosophy encyclopedia on the internet. For further reading about any relevant ideas.
	+ https://plato.stanford.edu/
* The internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Slightly less in depth than the stanford encyclopedia, but more accessible.
	+ http://www.iep.utm.edu/