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  • must be made between Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, which was the ... the responsibility to choose between good and evil. Some peoples believe ...
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  • under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. He became a devoted ... the Cynosarges. Emphasizing an ascetic life and the cultivation of wisdom ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest was an American cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary thinker ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • nineteenth century English poet, historian, and Whig politician. He wrote ... Oddly, a direct line can be drawn between this and Indian independence ...
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  • was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being ... both to punish the French monarchy and aristocracy for promulgating ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in ... Transcendental texts about mankind, nature, and divinity. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the nineteenth ... Baudelaire's most important work, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers ...
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  • century Danish existential philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard ... the idea became prominent in the philosophy and literature of the twentieth ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk, theologian and ... a series of books criticizing Pelagian ideas and in reaction developed his ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... eyes were opened to the knowledge of good and evil. Adam, however, was not ...
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  • codified, especially concerning their good and evil deities. Most of the ... which accounts for the existence of good and evil in the physical world ...
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  • Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Max Scheler, and Nicolai Hartmann. Their influence ... the extent to which it is through emotions and feelings that human beings ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • parallel to the struggle between good and evil in Western paradigm. ... who repudiates the designation of good and evil and thus marks the observation ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • political theorist of German descent and one of the most original, ... Arendt maintained that political theory and philosophy had inhibited a ...
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  • with many people in Latin American countries and eventually spreading to many ... which were primarily for African ethnicities and provided means for entertainment ...
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  • When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... Hex signs are highly stylized and geometric. Although individual designers ...
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  • the return of Christ, and therefore good and evil will remain mixed in ... Moreover, the amillennial view that good and evil will persist has ...
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  • Tiwaz) than to the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims. was replaced by Tian (天), a more distant and moralistic figure. ...
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  • numerous works, which include several novels and even a children's novel ... Born in San Francisco, to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson, Shirley and ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • faith instructs immortality, natural reason and Aristotelian doctrines are ... terms of a concatenation of natural causes and astrological influences. His ...
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  • in which the various entities could live and communicate in freedom and ... cosmic process as a struggle between good and evil; in Palestine prophets ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Jacobus Arminius, also called Jacob Arminius, James Arminius, and ... as portraying God as responsible for evil and denying human free will ...
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  • from human nature or physical nature, and therefore has universal validity ... of discerning the difference between good and evil because they have a conscience ...
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  • The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the ... *Gaita, Raimond. Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception. London: Routledge ...
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  • agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming ... Xu studied with Matteo Ricci in Nanjing, and in 1603 was baptized ...
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  • 28, 1794) was an Italian criminologist and economist. His work was significant ... this mathematical expression to the good and evil of life...." (On ...
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  • 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 ...
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