Greek:συμπόνια(el)f(sympónia),ευσπλαχνία(el)f(efsplachnía) Hebrew:רחמים(he)mpl(raḥamim);חמלה(he)(ḥemla);אמפתיה(he)(empatia) Ido:kompato(io) ...
PostedbyAmod LeleinChristianity,Compassion,Confucianism,Greek and Roman Tradition,Mahāyāna,Pleasure,Virtue ≈39 Comments Tags Aristotle,chastened intellectualism,Four Noble Truths,Friedrich Nietzsche,Jesus,Julia Annas,Lorraine Besser-Jones,Martha Nussbaum,Mencius,nonhuman animals,Śāntideva,Seneca,T.R. (...
The Greek is the same as in Ephesians 1:3, where, literally rendered, it is, "Blessed be the God and Father." The same phrase is found also in 1 Peter 1:3; Colossians 1:3. The meaning is not, "Blessed be the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Ch...
In New Testament Greek, a language that was used widely throughout the Roman Empire of St. Valentine’s life, there werefour types of love:eros(romantic love),storge(familial love),philia(deep friendship love), andagape, the deep, sacrificial love for all humans, all of humanity (the kind...
by the Greek tyrants in order to sort of free their societies. There was a social revolution in the 7th and 6th centuries that overthrew the mafia-type aristocracies, and the tyrants were the reformers who paved the way for democracy taking place. So we’re talking about a universal ...