Search results for "Good and evil" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
