Search results for "Good and evil" - New World Encyclopedia
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- almost unfathomable to imagine human beings, and educated human beings at that ... What this treatment speaks to is the existence of evil in the world ...2 KB (325 words) - 21:39, 10 October 2021
- human tendency to see the world in terms of good and evil, and the influence of Judeo-Christian thought in terms of judgment but also the millenarian ...1 KB (243 words) - 16:26, 12 May 2023
- explored the struggle between good and evil. He tended to play gangster roles, some of whom had a touch of decency despite their criminal personae ...829 bytes (132 words) - 02:18, 30 September 2022
- states who control the society's institutions and mass media. It is means to either obtain political control or to enhance political control. Cults ...808 bytes (132 words) - 18:30, 29 September 2023
- title=Optimism and Pessimism| image_name=WPaskell,MountKearsargeinSpring ... text=Optimism (from the Latin optimus, best) and pessimism (from the ...900 bytes (138 words) - 20:15, 16 August 2021
- ancient Egyptian religion, literature, iconography, and culture. Most of the context is lost as the ancient Egyptian civilization perished. However, ...847 bytes (141 words) - 17:39, 29 September 2022
- From Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic ... good (comparative better, superlative best) # (of people) ...4 KB (577 words) - 23:19, 28 July 2023
- corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions) ... bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on. # (computing) ...1 KB (166 words) - 19:52, 31 July 2023
- worst aspects of human nature, including torture and murder of other humans and racism. It was an attempt to bring justice to those who perpetrated ...1 KB (195 words) - 00:21, 26 October 2021
- 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
- to the group, developing social cohesion, and increasing their commitment ... However, this process has been abused and in many cases the components ...2 KB (280 words) - 19:54, 16 June 2022
- story. Apartment buildings range in size and quality of living accommodation ... utilized the world over since ancient times, and continues to find new and ...2 KB (252 words) - 14:58, 18 June 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
