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- The Good-Reasons Theory or Good Reasons approach, a theory in the ... the ideas of Stephen Toulmin, Jon Wheatley, and Kai Nielsen. ...4 KB (676 words) - 04:15, 24 May 2024
- first somewhat ambiguously in Plato and then more definitively in ... idea of choice as related to some objective good, and instead defined it strictly ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- In Kabbalah and European Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a spirit of ... While Jewish tradition regarding good and evil spiritual influences ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- themselves simply "Platonists," and the modern distinction is ... of Alexandria, Simplicius of Cilicia, and Damascius, who wrote On First ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 23:29, 30 June 2025
- * Cohen Stuart, G. H. The Struggle in Man Between Good and Evil: An ... Soul and the Personal Struggle between Good and Evil. ArtScroll Judaica classics ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
- meant that amulets could ward off the evil spirits. Amulets were believed ... , which is any object intended to bring good luck or protection to its owner. ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- from the most basic up to the very highest and most perfect being are hierarchically ... metaphysical rationalists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Beyond ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 19:30, 24 May 2024
- or sexual themes, treating issues of good and evil which are played out ... of morality, and the conflicts between good and evil are often presented in ...8 KB (1,068 words) - 09:48, 30 November 2024
- Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption ... Anglicanism and Methodism, See the Anglican Thirty-nine Articles, ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- Shaitan, a term also used referring to any evil spirit allied with Iblis, ... rooted in envy, Iblis disobeyed Allah and was expelled from divine grace ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 14:53, 28 November 2024
- him to choose a godly life over one of evil. The protagonist him or herself ... "The battle between the forces of good and evil in the human soul." ...15 KB (2,369 words) - 09:46, 1 June 2025
- second-shortest book by number of verses, and its shortest in regard to ... Gaius, to disobey the local church leader and provide hospitality to a group ...7 KB (1,190 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology ... in the common vocabulary of the Middle East and adapted into the Arabic language ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Orc is a word used to refer to various tough and warlike humanoid ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 20:14, 28 March 2025
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and the real existence of evil—by ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- of the universe. The antipodes of good and evil were no longer considered ... that Zoroastrianism did not hypostatize good and evil as the Abrahamic religions ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- lies is dependent on the existence of truth and on the ability to discern ... From antiquity, lying has often been rejected and even condemned by ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 04:19, 27 March 2025
- in various cultural, philosophical, and religious traditions. ... very reason. He who understands both good and evil as they really are, is ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- maintained monotheistic notions of God and essentially a ideological ... in regards to the status of believers and non-believers. The group is ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 11:22, 2 June 2025
- referring to the entire cycle of cause and effect which governs human ... Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and is associated ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 01:33, 3 March 2025
