the religious system of the Sabians, a group, according to the Koran, entitled to Muslim religious toleration. They have been associated with the Mandeans, who claim direct descent from the followers of John the Baptist. See also astronomy. ...
But a religion can give broad definition to the world which its faithful inhabit. In essence, a religious faith can constitute the lenses (i.e., cognitive-perceptual “style,” world view, or control beliefs) through which believers see the world, and those lenses are clearly different from ...
“Especially given our Kantian and Utilitarian heritage in moral philosophy, in both parts of which ‘happiness’ is taken to be the name of a feeling of contentment or pleasure, and a view that makes happiness the supreme good is assumed to be, by definition, a view that gives supreme val...
Second, the critical reflection necessary to develop a public sense of toleration for sexual behaviours and identities different from one's own could be difficult for someone with an intellectual disability to engage in. This is because some individuals with intellectual disabilities have difficulty ...
Definition:“An artisanal miner or small-scale miner (ASM) is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand. Small-scale mining includes enterprises or individuals that employ workers for ...
it was the Oriental slave who thus took revenge on Rome and its noble, light-minded toleration, on the Roman "Catholicism" of non-faith, and it was always not the faith, but the freedom from the faith, the half-stoical and smiling indifference to the seriousness of the faith, which mad...
Although the First Amendment of the American Constitution, upon receiving Locke’s teaching in his Letter Concerning Toleration “that no man can adapt his faith to the dictate of another” (s.d.: 18), discards any attempt of community prediction in the sphere of divine grace, it cannot be...
Very well! If the dispute could have been settled by a verbal definition, I don't know of a better one than Locke's for that purpose; and if the agitated minds of his time could have been talked out of their intolerance by means of it, the good Locke wouldn't have needed to go ...
Livia Kohn, “wuwei,” Fabrizio Pregadio, ed.,The Encyclopedia of Taoism, vol. II (New York: Routledge, 2008): 1067. Notice the definition refers to notimposingone’s intentions on the world, suggesting the possibility that an “intentional project” in the extended temporal sense outlined ...
did not just replace one king with another. It attempted to establish an entirely new regime, grounded in principles that authors had widely discussed before 1789: equality before the law, the sovereignty of the nation, religious toleration, the ‘rights of man.’ Books mattered.”—David A. ...