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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
    21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
  • 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 ...
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  • 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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  • Europe as finally establishing the principle and value of the barometer. ... and Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics), and as ...
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  • to become recollected, and so I took much pleasure in it and decided to follow ... a papal sanction for her founding principle of absolute poverty and ...
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  • Though disagreeing on the principle underlying a Regency, Pitt agreed ... *David, Saul. Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making ...
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  • of a society from the so-called universal principle of the desire of wealth. ... individual" or the "calculus of pleasure and pain" as the only ...
    27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
  • create man holy, it was of His "good pleasure" and "mere and ... what he regarded as the inner, moving principle of the revival, the doctrine ...
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  • strict reasoning based on an original principle, in Hume’s eyes, is pure ... to solve the problem by stating that the principle of cause and effect is ...
    48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
  • unwarranted fear and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness ... over the individual. The second important principle is freedom, which the state ...
    25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
  • polyalphabetic cipher was, at least in principle, for it was not properly ... glass, through which you may receive the pleasure either of sun or air, according ...
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  • A characteristic principle of Manichean theology is its dualism. Mani ... Autophyes (Essential nature) and Hedone (Pleasure), Acinetos (Immovable) and ...
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  • Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... its early converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...
    41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023

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