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Characterization in Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2022 The authorial assessment of individuals in Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History is discussed. Historian’s comments are the principal technique of character portrayal in the work, and most of them are brief and standardized phrases, namely ...
Osipova, Olga Vladimirovna
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From Vices to Corruption to Misanthropy
TheoLogica, 2023 The main part of the paper describes the deep connections between the concepts of vices, corruption, and misanthropy. I argue that the full significance of the concept of human vices or failings is only fully appreciated when it is connected to an ...
Ian Kidd
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Vices and criminality: a social and legal assessment [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article presents a philosophical and legal study of relationship between the concepts of vice, sin and crime. On the basis of modern criminological analysis, the authors conclude that the main cause of crime lies in the objective existence of human ...
Truntsevsky Yury +3 more
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Homunculi Are People Too! Lewis's Definition of Personhood Debugged [PDF]
, 2017 David Lewis defends the following "non-circular definition of personhood": "something is a continuant person if and only if it is a maximal R-interrelated aggregate of person-stages.
Gilmore, Cody
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CONTRACTUAL FREEDOM AND FORMALISM IN THE CREDIT AGREEMENT [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011 The credit agreement meaning is trust. It involves a psychological relationship between two or more persons, characterized by predictability the third one involving present or future action on the status of a particular person.This relationship is ...
ANCA NICOLETA GHEORGHE +1 more
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Transformation of Vices to Virtues from the Perspective of Shi’ite and Sunni Commentators [PDF]
پژوهشهای تفسیر تطبیقی, 2018 The negation of virtues and vices is one of immensely important issues which has been focused in many verses and Hadith. In this regard, different Islamic denominations have raised the issue to discuss its aspects and exchange ideas.
Ali Reza Zakizadeh Renani +1 more
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Virtue and vice in environmental discourse
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2013 For effective environmental protection, the necessary tools are not only the external ones in the form of commands, and legal or economic instruments.
Dominika Dzwonkowska
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The Non-Aristotelian Virtue of Truth from the Second-Person Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 The claim has been made that when Aquinas speaks about the virtue of truth and its opposing vices in the Summa theologiae 2-2.109-113, he regards himself as speaking of the same virtue of truth as found in the Nicomachean Ethics 4.7.
Pinsent, Andrew
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The Pathology of the Role of Agents in the Realization of the Islamic State from the Perspective of Ayatollah Khamenei [PDF]
دولتپژوهیIntroductionAfter the victory of the Islamic Revolution in February 1978, the Islamic Republic was founded on two core principles: divine sovereignty and popular sovereignty.
Elaheh Sadeghi
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Wady środowiskowe jako etyczne i antropologiczne źródła kryzysu środowiskowego
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2014 The root of the environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue.
Dominika Dzwonkowska
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