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
