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