Search results for "Good and evil" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being ... both to punish the French monarchy and aristocracy for promulgating ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 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
- 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
- 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
