1.Ethics.the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good. See alsoepicurism. 2.a devotion to pleasure as a way of life. —hedonist,n.—hedonistic,adj. hedonology Rare.the study of human pleasure. Also calledhedonics.
Other versions of the humoral theory had been propounded in the ancient East, but the doctrine was formulated most clearly by Hippocrates, whose influence determined the course of medicine for centuries. Hippocrates isolated medicine as a science from natural philosophy, turned observations at the sic...
“You’re a Mormon. So you don’t X?” that was when I felt the Mormonness most overtly. I found myself becoming a Representative. And that, friends, is what the church wants to happen. Once you present to your friends in the capacity of a Representative, then it brings in lots of...
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Now, for those familiar with the kind of basic tenets of copyright law, there is no such thing as the sweat of the brow doctrine. So it kind of doesn't matter how much work you put into something. If it's not inherently copyrightable, it doesn't matter that you spent a lot of...
As that movement becomes predominantly non-Jewish, a doctrine called “supersessionism” emerges. It holds that Jews used to have a special relationship with God – a covenant – but their covenant was discontinued due to Jews’ perpetual and unanimous bad behavior. As a result, the Jews’ ...
” Paul was writing to one of the churches he established in Corinth, an important coastal city in Greece. This was a troubled church, not unlike many of the churches in the West today. There were sharp divisions about personalities and doctrine and he had previously written a strong rebuke...
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one representing Susan B. Anthony and one representing Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These two titans of the women's rights movement can be seen struggling to hold a pen upright as they write out the movement's doctrine: "Men, their rights and nothing more. Women, their rights and nothing less....
The conservatives will still reinvigorate the non-delegation doctrine, and a terrible law will still remain on the books. Gregory Lipper Clinton & Peed Making Sense of the SCOTUS Per Curiam in Arkansas SSM Birth Certificate Case 6/29/17 // Commentary The challenged Arkansas law most certainly...