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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
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the ... for these epic battles between good and evil. In addition, in his ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- He denied the existence of objective truth and values, replaced reality with ... and unchanging criteria of truth, values, good and evil. ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- In an addendum to his book The Heart of Man: Its Genius For Good and ... *Fromm, E. 1964. The Heart of Man: its Genius for Good and Evil. ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- which flourished during the fourth and early third centuries B.C ... doctrine by distinguishing between greater and lesser pleasures, and by creating ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- 303/302 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher and follower of Confucianism who ... influence, as he was the primary proponent (and systematizer) of Confucian ...22 KB (3,470 words) - 04:29, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology ... to the evil committed, and to define good and evil for the people to follow ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 18:12, 14 April 2023
- is a symbol fraught with mystery, intrigue, and meaning. It has been the symbol ... Pentagons have been used both to call forth evil and to ward it off. ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- of Epicurus (c. 340–c. 270 B.C.E.), and was one of the most popular ... including The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and his private letters ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- early development of medieval philosophy, and laid the foundation for future ... *Good and Evil (De bono et malo) *The Cloister of the Soul (De claustro ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- written in Ephesus about 90-110 C.E. and is more a sermon than a letter ... or authors who wrote the Gospel of John and the other two epistles of ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher and religious mystic. Although ... ===Childhood and school years=== Simone Weil was born in Paris on February ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... On Natural Laws), propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- action is caused by appearances of good and evil in much the same way ... Actions: The one by the Appearances of Good and Evil, the other by a Weight ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- restoring the relationship between humanity and God. It arose among the monks ... or Conferences of the Egyptian Monks), and Vincent of Lerins (Commonitorium ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of ... The early Christian church believed that he had known Saint Paul and ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- and portray the ongoing battle between good and evil. Later, wayang was also ... plays usually portray a battle between good and evil, with good always winning ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- will, the ability to choose between good and evil. Although God expects ... fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Their sin was not caused ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- are "Euthyphro dilemma" by Plato and "Prisoner's dilemma ... must accept either A, or B;" here A and B would be propositions, each ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ... favoring war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- one of America's leading anti-war and anti-nuclear activists. Berrigan ... focus of his life's work in the peace and anti-war movements, to which ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... a spirit.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Dee and Edward Kelley evoking a spirit: ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- that focused on identifying, characterizing, and combating witchcraft. It was ... remained a popular tome among both Catholic and Protestant witch-hunters, ...29 KB (4,393 words) - 10:59, 9 March 2023
- the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, and famous for several famous ... known alternatively as Tel Megiddo (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- paintings, rock carvings, grave markers, and stones positioned for religious ... immortal souls. Rudimentary beliefs in good and evil appeared, requiring gifted ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- the founder of Talmudic studies in France and Germany. He is also known ... Jews who became apostates under compulsion, and the prohibition of opening ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- set aside to focus on repentance and concluding with the holiday ... sacred days of judgment, on which the good and evil deeds of every human ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player. Born in ... also a devoted husband to his wife Lillie and his two daughters. His talents ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- of genres, including science, music, poetry, and theology. He is also one of ... His method of documenting his sources—and always being critical of ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... can be found representing the powers of good and evil, the virtues and vices ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... on Namibia] Retrieved September 7, 2007. and, at the time of the arrival ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two central concepts ... eudaimonia to be the highest human good, but they differ from one ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... There were also many lesser spirits, both good and evil. ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- who initiates him to "knowledge of good and evil," and makes him ... "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil" was a euphemism ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- disciple of Honen (1133-1212). Both Shinran and Honen saw the age they were ... are ten distinct sects of Jodo Shinshu, and in 2011 all ten schools commemorated ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- physical substance, involving both good and evil (depending on whether ... it is the aroused state, involving both good and evil. The two natures, however ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- "last, ultimate, end" and logy, teaching), simply translated ... religious consciousness, standards of good and evil were introduced which ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- sees God at work in history seeking to guide and influence human decision-making ... a drama of the cosmic struggle between good and evil. The ultimate goal is ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- – August 22, 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analyzed ... His parents, Yakov Philippovich Propp and Anna-Elizaveta Fridrikhovna ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 23:03, 24 May 2023
- His writings such as The Confessions and The City of God display his ... asserted that the world is a mixture of good and evil, Augustine held that ...65 KB (10,155 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He taught ... research into a wide range of philosophical and religious arenas, including ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- currently undisputed letters of Saint Paul and counted among the four letters ... humanity through the grace of Jesus Christ, and only by faith (not works) ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... as created by the conflict between good and evil, God or Satan. Cruel ...21 KB (2,860 words) - 21:27, 25 January 2024
- theology, derived from biblical exegesis and found in the Apostles' ... into Hell, as expressed in the Creeds, and, secondly, it includes the ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- influenced by the work of St. Augustine, and is primarily known for his ... we understand to be the cause of good and evil. Taken together with ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament ... hopeful passages, portraying God's love and mercy for His people and promising ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... The Abenaki (or Abnaki) are a tribe of Native American and First Nations ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- Tov, was an eighteenth century Jewish mystic and the founder of Hasidic Judaism ... The title Baal Shem Tov is usually translated as "Master of the ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- this include its inclusion of pagan thought and the differences between its ... The work consists of a prologue and two main sections. The first main ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the ... one of the major Sophists, argued that good and evil is a matter of interpretation ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- the tyrannical reign of Herod the Great and his sons as the result of ... by this identification is that both Gelasius and Origen refer to an incident ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- pain, illness, disability, hunger, poverty, and death. Examples of mental ... is a constant inner struggle between good and evil inclinations, our higher ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- 323 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and one of the founders of the ... says that his father was a money changer and defiled the coinage, another ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- to be one of the greatest English mystics and the first known female writer ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- ) and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Observances traditionally ... to remove bad fortune from the previous year and to prepare themselves and ...42 KB (6,591 words) - 16:45, 10 December 2023
- a concept as grand as the existence of good and evil, is clearly also influenced ... would publish an epic on the subject of good and evil explicitly modeled on ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 06:59, 3 August 2022
- that led to the execution of 14 women and 6 men, in 1692, for charges ... Europe--particularly Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries--during ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... also appears in other East Asian cultures, and thus is also sometimes called ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... staple in the realms of legend, folklore, and fantasy. One of the most anthropomorphic ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- twentieth century. Constructed as a question-and-answer session between Jesus ... The Dialogue of the Saviour teaches that the physical body and the ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- in the New Testament: Rev. 7:3-8; Rev. 14:1; and Rev. 14:3-5. These passages ... of an eschatological struggle between good and evil. Within this struggle ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- secrets of the Kabbalah) with in-depth Torah and Talmud scholarship. Like other ... was opposed both by more conservative Jews and by other Hasidic leaders who ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- November 5, 2008. Governments often define and regulate lobbying by organized ... to regulate the activities of lobbyists and prevent corruption and abuse ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- it is the rational study of the meaning and justification of fundamental ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- in Citium, Cyprus, he came to Athens and began to study under Crates ... be reached through indifference to pleasure and pain. He was also a utopian ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- – March 10, 1940) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of the first half ... Ultimately, the novel deals with the interplay of good and evil, innocence ...18 KB (2,746 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Saints Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, and Vincent of Lérins. It was ... is rarely used even in the Western Church and the attribution to Athanasius ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- "messenger") is a supernatural and ethereal being found in many ... The belief in powerful and benevolent spiritual beings is an ancient ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- | magnum_opus = Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, short stories ... of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character ...24 KB (3,778 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- schools such as Samkhya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika and Purva mimamsa. Madhava explained ... Dvaita posited an anthropomorphic personal and independent God, Vishnu, who ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- administrative techniques (術, Shu), and laws (法, Fa). The ruler’s ... that seemed better able to solve the social and political problems accompanying ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- of the ruling elite in Korea prior to 1945 and during the Republics period ... on education, teachers, family background, and city of origin, has been perpetuated ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He ... era was a time of great social change and increased social awareness ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general ... ==Early life and career== Robert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always ... There are both common-sense and historically contingent sources of ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... 28, 1960), was an American anthropologist and social theorist. He is best ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He was a key figure ... another into the hands of foreign powers, and governments rising and falling ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- he founded, Pire's humanitarian and peace activities have benefited ... the Peace University to promote dialogue and fraternity. "Brotherly ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 23:54, 28 November 2022
- novelist, playwright, short story writer, and critic. He also penned several ... He felt the basic struggle between good and evil, the basic beliefs in ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- " "friendship," "good will," "kindness," ... "love," "sympathy," and "active interest ...28 KB (4,040 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- was a British novelist, short story author, and screenwriter famous as a writer ... offbeat characters, inventive plots, and tender messages. Even posthumously ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2022
- blends ritual, sacred traditional precepts, and rehearsed elements with creative ... of the universe, the nature of good and evil, and the lives of deities ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- other examples of figs include the banyans and the sacred fig (Peepul or Bo) tree. ... quot; from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Likewise, fig leaves ...16 KB (2,692 words) - 19:39, 26 March 2024
- Divodās (meaning "divine man") and Sudās (meaning "good ... The Greek historians Q. Curtius Rufus (8,3) and Ptolemy (Geography: 6,10,2 ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- former Prisoner of Zion, Israeli politician and author. As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher ... Christianity through the polarities of good and evil and in the increasingly ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... about other topics. What exactly justice is, and what it demands of individuals ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- unit, determining factors for the process, and the overall nature of history ... His history of great men, of geniuses good and evil, sought to organize change ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- the second son of Jungjong (중종 中宗), and his mother was Queen Munjeong ... An official system for training and selecting monks in both the ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- considered a talent in music, art, theater, and writing. Falk was best known ... 'Mandrake the Magician' and 'The Phantom,' are ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... :This article is concerned with the inheritance of physical and monetary ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2020
- calling them to repentance, faithfulness, and hope. Malachi is particularly ... a final battle between the forces of good and evil. By tying the Day of ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- because of its frequent references to joy and rejoicing, the letter was ... but by sharing in Christ's suffering and "working out your own ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- was often discussed within ethical contexts and considered as a virtue. in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the inscription ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- the truth, giving up his worldly position, and became Buddha, he set up a ... In addition to pursuing their own spiritual advancement, Bhikkhu and ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Choe's religious teaching, and the rebellion that many followers ... Choe wrote that good and evil in human affairs are the result of men ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading ... Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, and others. R.H.W. Dillard, Introduction ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work ... depicted the trial as one between good and evil, between truth and ignorance ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion ... the first talking board to receive a patent and the first to be commercially ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- the cost of the epic struggle between good and evil that took place during ... In addition to the perspective Timrod offers to historians and those ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- most of Armenia was lost to the Roman Empire and Emperor Marcus Aurelius Carus ... humanity that the struggle between good and evil is real. Bahram II had ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- Moody, was an American preacher, evangelist and publisher who founded the ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology with a particular situation, or scenario, and expanded or supported by reference ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his Ahlul Bayt (family). Shi ... Relations between 'Shi'a and Sunni Muslims have been strained ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic and Altaic religion named Tengriism ... Dynasty (1122 – 256 B.C.E.). Ancient Turks and Mongols maintained a continuous ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- 1883 – April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon ... teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- other herbs or plants are used or added and the leaves are usually bound ... While smudging is not exclusive to Native Americans, and it has been ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- was a Protestant social ethicist, preacher, and prolific writer who is best ... "an impossible possibility," and that it does not sufficiently ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- April 18, 1947) was a Roman Catholic priest and a famous Nazi collaborator ... that he personally held anti-semitic views and that his government enacted ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- as Samguk Yusa, Gyuwon Sahwa, Shindan Minsa, and Hwandan-gogi, Shinshi or Baedal ... managed disease, and Yangga managed good and evil. The designations of ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
- Reformer, theologian, freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer. Ordained ... *The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil *Translation with Additions ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist and pacifist. He was an ordained ... of any size. He was committed to upholding and espousing his beliefs throughout ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- For example, a distance measured in miles and a volume of water measured ... beyond the philosophy of science to ethics, and it was used to explore the ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- was a Greek philosopher, biographer, and essayist. He was a Middle ... of a dualistic opposition between good and evil principles in the world ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. A student leader ... While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower blacks ...19 KB (2,967 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- controversy surrounding Gentile Christians and the Mosaic Law within Early ... "I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!" ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble and scholarly, but impoverished ... now regarded as the greatest poet of his era and was a major influence on the ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- was a legendary American blues musician and, arguably, one of the most ... artists such as Charlie Patton, Leroy Carr,and Tommy Johnson, as well as ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known ... USA. Sarah was born November 26, 1792 and Angelina was born on February ...25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... indigenous peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- Described in the Bible as a man of uncommon promise and valor, Saul ... against Israel's enemies on one hand and seeking to destroy his divinely ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- a British Army officer in India, explorer, and spiritualist. Dubbed by one ... a British military family, John Younghusband and his wife Clara Shaw. Clara ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- C.E.), was a philosopher who lived in China and, together with Confucius, ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- primarily discuss philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form ... (mantras), Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads. Michaels (2004), 51. ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- The chicken (Gallus gallus) is one of humankind's most common ... as a source of food, both from their meat and their eggs. People in many ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- as well as various varieties of good and evil spirits. All entities ... that the mind brings forth both good and evil, depending on if it receives ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- Moral theology or Christian ethics is an Ethics developed from and ... ground for every distinction between good and evil lay in the free determination ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- deity or deities). Atheism has many shades and types. Some atheists strongly ... be described as philosophically materialist (and even this is subtle vis-à ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Jerusalem, succeeding his father Solomon and his grandfather David. He ... his reign. His story is told in the 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles. An inscription ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... The term was originally used by Carl Jung and is a key concept in analytical ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... king, just has He had given spiritual power and authority to the church, centering ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- had been a bitter opponent of his father, and strongly denounced Jehoiachin ... After reigning for only three months and ten days, Jehoiachin was ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 04:29, 31 July 2022
- , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... Hades was also known as Pluto (from Greek Ploutōn), and it was by ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- or free will to act as a rational agent, and 3) results that can be either ... is the ability to know right from wrong and regulate one's conduct ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- history in English between the Conquest and the later fourteenth century. ... The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles were composed and maintained between the ...16 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among brothers ...19 KB (2,869 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- to be confused with modern judges), and of their times. It includes ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- division of theology into revealed theology and natural theology is derived ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- world as Alpharabius, Al-Farabi, Farabi, and Abunaser (870 - 950 C.E.) ... truths; conscience, which distinguishes good and evil, and is gained through ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- and is said to reflect the battle between good and evil. ... is the scene of a struggle between good and evil, in which God is directly ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- the life of the prophet Jeremiah from a mob, and the grandson of the scribe ... After the destruction of Jerusalem and the execution of King Zedekiah ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- of various societies, groups of people, and individuals. The results of ... live need not coincide with actual practices and accepted moral principles ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- emperor Cyrus II (the Great), the founder and ruler of the Persian Empire ... Marduk for his policy of religious reforms and restoration of the temples ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- of significant symbols known to all periods and to all regions of the world ... From the tree of knowledge of good and evil, through which the Fall ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- role in Tibetan religious teachings, and has particular relevance in ... that when the world declines into war and greed, and all is lost, the ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile ... Although a good portion of Goldsmith's vast oeuvre is considered ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the ... in seven cantos (kāṇḍas) and tells the story of a prince, Rama ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... one of the major Sophists, argued that good and evil are a matter of interpretation ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- Japanese folklore, art, theater, literature and religious mythology. They ... a process of importing myths from China (and, indirectly, from India), ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
- collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as ... themes reflect a Medieval culture of princes and Medieval superstitions as ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
