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  • and prosperity, namely, the surplus of pleasure over pain. In Social Statics ... Spencer believed that the first principle of ethics was "the ...
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  • of sex, rather than by the fundamental principle of moral being, has led to all that multifarious train of evils flowing out of the anti-Christian ...
    25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
  • that as a youth, Judah Ha-levi enjoyed a life of pleasure. ... on the world; he abandoned frivolous pleasure, and his poetry turned to ...
    27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
  • quot;raku" which translates as "pleasure." ... institution in Japan, is rooted in the principle of Zen Buddhism and founded ...
    18 KB (2,882 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
  • known quote, "To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted ... deeper than those used today. The main principle was now the removal of ...
    25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
  • moral law, wealth or material welfare, pleasure, and liberation or emancipation ... B.C.E.). Anekantavada is a basic principle of Jainism positing that ...
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  • equally accessible to all citizens. This principle is now so fundamental to ... *Public Pleasure Grounds, San Francisco, California *Riverside Drive ...
    19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
  • that women have less capacity for pleasure, and less capacity for work ... then is to appeal to the utilitarian principle of maximizing the sum of ...
    20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
  • life-long learning, and reinforce the pleasure of encountering and mastering ... " while other see the Montessori principle of "freedom within ...
    21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
  • Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... inculcating its converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...
    20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
  • acts is the reason, which is the first principle of human acts. (Aquinas ... due to his lack of self control and desire for pleasure, ...
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  • pantheism, a violation of the Maimonidean principle that God is in no sense ... of influencing it is the chief practical principle of Hasidism. This communion ...
    28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
  • only interests were the stage, and the pleasure that he derived from writing ... trick provides the play's organizing principle and the turning-points ...
    21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
  • antagonism to the Everlasting No, and the principle that there is no such thing ... the life of humanity, and has a malicious pleasure in scoffing at everything ...
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  • The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ... the false assumption that the "luck principle" is true. The luck ...
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  • associations with fertility, wealth and pleasure are evidenced in the sea ... of the northern Germans already has the principle traits of the Scandinavian ...
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  • there was an outcry over his murder, the principle upon which he made a stand ... Having previously been a merry, pleasure-loving courtier, Becket ...
    22 KB (3,489 words) - 20:22, 31 October 2022
  • forgetful of the Lord, attaches itself to pleasure and thus is bound (Svetasvatara ... John's Gospel applies this same principle to Christianity when John ...
    35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
  • intervened she must remain true to the principle of liberty. If American ... redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people ...
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  • whose writing systems employ the phonemic principle, ordinary letters may be ... quot; /ˈprɛʃər/ and "pleasure" /ˈplɛʒər/ can ...
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