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- 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) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- * 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
- 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 (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 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
- 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 (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- 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
- 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) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- 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) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- 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) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- but believe that the struggle between good and evil in the world will eventually ... will, the ability to choose between good and evil. They are expected not ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- for exercising sovereign control over both good and evil. ... of the struggle between personified good and evil is thought by many scholars ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is ... about the relationship between reason and faith as exemplified in Kierkegaard ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- (soul), and without a sense of good and evil. Christianity is described ... in strife. In the Jew and the woman, good and evil are not distinct from ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- 3, 2008) was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. He was responsible ... that "the line separating good and evil is drawn through the ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- refers to the first sin, committed when Adam and Eve succumbed to the serpent ... life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2:9). God ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- to Grigori appear in the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees. In Hebrew ... as well as the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch. ==Description== ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe. It is ... appearing at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- When we positively evaluate persons, actions, objects and situations ... moral value. Or again, relaxation may be good for a person, but there is ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- thus created, the distinction between good and evil emerges in his thought ... (wuwei). In incipience (ji) there is good and evil. As for the [Five Constant ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- 42-chapter book is a dialogue between Job and his three friends concerning ... that the ultimate archetype of God embraces both good and evil. ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- ==Good and evil== There is an obvious correlation between the question of good and evil ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- Mid-Autumn Festival (across Chinese diaspora and Vietnam) and Chuseok (North ... month. These days normally fall in September and October of the modern solar ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they were cast ... and the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." Adam and Eve, ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- ethical theories such as utilitarianism and Kantian deontological ethics ... education, international relations, law, and politics. While both care ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- many, including omniscience, omnipresence, and benevolence. There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious ... is an implicit dualism proposed between good and evil, precluding the possibility ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- people as well as in society between good and evil, and of the conviction ... the first Shia Imam Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib and a man named al-Asbagh ibn Nubata. ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- their acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil, in order for creation ... as well as the relationship between good and evil. After experiencing another ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- ethical or spiritual exposition of a text, and Midrash Halakhah, referring ... these. Indeed, a wide range of speculation and interpretive freedom is evident ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- Design, the Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil, in 1725, and the Essay ... number" (Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil, sect. 3). Hutcheson ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a ... possessed persons are not regarded as evil in themselves, nor wholly ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control ... from a collection of oral stories composed and recited by traveling monks ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- understood as a capacity for making choices and decisions, whereas the practical ... as the faculty that forms intentions, and makes decisions and choices ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- philosophy. He succeeded Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes as head of the original ... philosophy at the Academy with Arcesilaus and Lacydes, and there he apparently ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- could not resist peeking into the container, and upon opening it, allegedly ... women) because it attributes the origin of evil in the universe to the existence ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- his contentious thesis that human nature is evil, and, resultantly, that people ... This is the distinction between good and evil. Now suppose that man ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- book of the Bible, in terms of verses (13), and the second shortest in terms ... a close relationship between 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John, as well as the Gospel ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- theory holds that right and wrong, good and evil, just and unjust are ... there are as many distinct scales of good and evil as there are subjects ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. ... and causes due to choice between good and evil. Ibn Daud proposes that ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- theme of patient perseverance during trials and temptations, the text condemns ... date has been estimated as early as 45 C.E. and as late as the mid-second century. ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- They viewed truth or a standard of good and evil as a matter of interpretation ... view that power determines and defines good and evil. Even deceptive measures ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a large and ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- E.) was a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived and taught in the Greek city of ... character], and in this alone lies good and evil. No one, therefore, can ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- must be made between Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, which was the ... the responsibility to choose between good and evil. Some peoples believe ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- originally attributed to Saint Paul and part of the New Testament ... a churchman who honored Paul's memory and invoked it to help the emerging ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. He became a devoted ... the Cynosarges. Emphasizing an ascetic life and the cultivation of wisdom ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest was an American cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary thinker ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- Iraq) between a small group of supporters and relatives of Muhammad's ... represent the battle as one between good and evil, light and darkness with ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general applicability ... The quest for oneness has been an important, universal drive and impulse ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- quot;pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy). It is offered ... from Paul, many scholars today doubt that it and the other pastoral epistles ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Czeslaw Milosz (June 30, 1911 - August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet ... nature of the contradictions between good and evil that exist within each person. ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- that all humans are born with original sin and that the sacrament of baptism ... of a region located on the border of Hell and called it limbus, a Latin ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- June 19, 1993) was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize ... explores the conflict between the good and evil aspects of our nature ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- nineteenth century English poet, historian, and Whig politician. He wrote ... Oddly, a direct line can be drawn between this and Indian independence ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- festival that symbolizes the victory of good over evil. In North India ... It usually occurs in October/November, and is one of the most popular ...17 KB (2,633 words) - 15:51, 29 January 2024
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... to attributes composing knowledge about good and evil, that a soul acquires ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being ... both to punish the French monarchy and aristocracy for promulgating ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 02:13, 11 August 2022
- in the Abrahamic religions, who personifies evil and temptation, and is known ... cosmic struggle between the forces of good and evil (stark examples are Manichaeism ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in ... Transcendental texts about mankind, nature, and divinity. ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- sees the world as divided simply into good and evil, right and wrong, us ... and develop a deeper understanding of good and evil, forgiveness and mercy ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- speaking countries, is considered a sign of good luck when carried on or near ... imbued with a certain amount of superstition and symbolism. Rabbits tend to ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the nineteenth ... Baudelaire's most important work, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- century Danish existential philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard ... the idea became prominent in the philosophy and literature of the twentieth ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- eating, called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Devil (in the Bible ... Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. These are most likely ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence ... would form a whole, a dichotomy of good and evil. The work, however, remained ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- were influential during the second century, and a few centuries after, thus ... for his rejection of the whole Hebrew Bible and other Christian books that ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk, theologian and ... a series of books criticizing Pelagian ideas and in reaction developed his ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- of Ypres, Dutch Roman Catholic theologian, and the father of the religious ... Angélique Arnauld, Abbess of Port-Royal, and through her, the nuns of the ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... eyes were opened to the knowledge of good and evil. Adam, however, was not ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- codified, especially concerning their good and evil deities. Most of the ... which accounts for the existence of good and evil in the physical world ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Max Scheler, and Nicolai Hartmann. Their influence ... the extent to which it is through emotions and feelings that human beings ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- of faith used in the Lutheran Church and one of the most important ... 28 articles of faith in the Lutheran Church and is the fourth document contained ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- parallel to the struggle between good and evil in Western paradigm. ... who repudiates the designation of good and evil and thus marks the observation ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, who is said to perform ... Exilic Judaism, only Michael (Daniel 12:1) and Gabriel (Luke 1: 19-26) are ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- by the People's Republic of China and its materials and activities ... in the act of retribution, and all good and evil deeds will be paid in ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- political theorist of German descent and one of the most original, ... Arendt maintained that political theory and philosophy had inhibited a ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- with many people in Latin American countries and eventually spreading to many ... which were primarily for African ethnicities and provided means for entertainment ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- the return of Christ, and therefore good and evil will remain mixed in ... Moreover, the amillennial view that good and evil will persist has ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... Hex signs are highly stylized and geometric. Although individual designers ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- Tiwaz) than to the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims. was replaced by Tian (天), a more distant and moralistic figure. ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- numerous works, which include several novels and even a children's novel ... Born in San Francisco, to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson, Shirley and ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 14:20, 27 January 2023
- credited with being the first to realize and develop the potential of film ... his films were screened for people low and high, from the urban working ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- (in Chinese). Although some consider good and evil as an example of Yang ... and negativity. Some consider good and evil as an example of Yang ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- a person off from God's grace. In Latin and English, the Seven Deadly ... venial sin (forgiven through a sacrament) and capital sin (meriting damnation ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- faith instructs immortality, natural reason and Aristotelian doctrines are ... terms of a concatenation of natural causes and astrological influences. His ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- in which the various entities could live and communicate in freedom and ... cosmic process as a struggle between good and evil; in Palestine prophets ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- Jacobus Arminius, also called Jacob Arminius, James Arminius, and ... as portraying God as responsible for evil and denying human free will ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- B.C.E. by Zeno of Citium (334-262 B.C.E.) and further developed by his two ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- from human nature or physical nature, and therefore has universal validity ... of discerning the difference between good and evil because they have a conscience ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the ... *Gaita, Raimond. Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception. London: Routledge ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming ... Xu studied with Matteo Ricci in Nanjing, and in 1603 was baptized ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- 28, 1794) was an Italian criminologist and economist. His work was significant ... this mathematical expression to the good and evil of life...." (On ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- be written by Ezra, the great Jewish leader and scribe who was instrumental ... similar to parts of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Enoch, as well ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
