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2022
Abstract This chapter explores the moral implications of purity and sanctity. It offers an explanation for why people throughout the world consider purity virtuous, suggesting that the moral value of purity stemmed from the adaptive value of cleanliness and the avoidance of pathogens in early human environments.
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Abstract This chapter explores the moral implications of purity and sanctity. It offers an explanation for why people throughout the world consider purity virtuous, suggesting that the moral value of purity stemmed from the adaptive value of cleanliness and the avoidance of pathogens in early human environments.
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Agricultural History, 2023
Abstract This article uses the concept of purity to explore the thinking of purebred animal breeders and that of eugenicists in Britain and North America between 1880 and 1920. It begins with an explanation of why such a study is important and continues with the historical background of purity's role in animal breeding over the ...
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Abstract This article uses the concept of purity to explore the thinking of purebred animal breeders and that of eugenicists in Britain and North America between 1880 and 1920. It begins with an explanation of why such a study is important and continues with the historical background of purity's role in animal breeding over the ...
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 1975
Throughout this paper we use the Bourbaki [1] conventions for rings and modules: all rings are associative but not necessarily commutative and have a 1; all modules are unital.Our purpose is to extend and simplify some recent results of Maddox [7], Megibben [8], Enochs [3], and the author [5] on absolutely pure modules by introducing several new ...
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Throughout this paper we use the Bourbaki [1] conventions for rings and modules: all rings are associative but not necessarily commutative and have a 1; all modules are unital.Our purpose is to extend and simplify some recent results of Maddox [7], Megibben [8], Enochs [3], and the author [5] on absolutely pure modules by introducing several new ...
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Critical Inquiry, 1989
Abstract Once an artist imagined how he would look if he plucked out an offending eye. He painted a self-portrait in which the orbit on the right side of his face was gaping, dolorous. Seven years passed, and then there came a day when the artist tried to break up a fight among his friends.
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Abstract Once an artist imagined how he would look if he plucked out an offending eye. He painted a self-portrait in which the orbit on the right side of his face was gaping, dolorous. Seven years passed, and then there came a day when the artist tried to break up a fight among his friends.
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2016
Purity is an extremely varied and heterogeneous religious ideal that lies at the critical intersection between the individual physical body, the social body, and the cosmos as a whole. At once a material and a spiritual ideal, purity overlaps partially with but far exceeds modern notions of cleanliness or hygiene; indeed, it may in some cases even ...
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Purity is an extremely varied and heterogeneous religious ideal that lies at the critical intersection between the individual physical body, the social body, and the cosmos as a whole. At once a material and a spiritual ideal, purity overlaps partially with but far exceeds modern notions of cleanliness or hygiene; indeed, it may in some cases even ...
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