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Essays 211 - 240
In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...
and the pursing of a relationship with Christ, it is also beneficial to integrate interviews with children at varied stages in dev...
study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...
may base a belief. Those who most support induction as the framework for forming beliefs think of it as a logical process that inv...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...
moon. This was possible because, Einstein theorized, that the same laws that govern the physics of nature must be true of things...
have purposefully separated themselves from the rest of society as a means by which to build a community of their own jurisdiction...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
In six pages this paper examines the unity of belief that was called for by The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on ...
Holy Ghost/Spirit (Faigin, 2002). This difference is directly related to belief in Jesus. Judaism does not accept Jesus Christ a...
their lifetime. Presumably this requirement is for the spiritual edification of the Islamic adherent. During the ten days of rites...
Ethics is concerned with how a moral person should behave, whereas values are the inner judgments that determine how a person actu...
the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...
its way into common acceptance among the general public. While the current attitude toward this practice might still view it with...
forces which existed during his time. Some of those forces could be interpreted as evil, as could the impact they had on Machiave...
about the time of the life of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their ar...
Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
or change as well as "identity or rest...the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may b...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...
the way that attitudes can be altered, and as a result of these alterations the individual increases knowledge and the way in whic...
also comes with other ideals and towards the end of the eighteenth century, things changed immensely. Trade had already opened new...
impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...
needs to be explored as to why such a high number of cases exists." 2.0 Complicating Factors...