Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia - Virtue
(Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) Virtue is moral excellence of a man or a woman. The word is derived from the Greek arete (αρετη). A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Four Virtues
The four classic Western "cardinal" virtues are: prudence/wisdom justice fortitude/courage temperance The four classic Islamic "cardina...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Four Virtues: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Four Virtues
Four Virtues The four Nirvanic virtues: (1)  Eternity or permanence; (2)  Joy; (3)  Personality; (4)  Purity....   » Read the article

Article - Feng Shui: How Karma And Luck Are Connected To Feng Shui
In today�s world, Feng Shui has fast entered the mainstream of practical information about alternative guidance. Authentic Feng Shui dati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardinal Virtues: Encyclopedia - Cardinal Virtues
In the Christian church, there are four cardinal virtues. These are prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. These were derived init...   » Read the article

Article - Dharma: Samanya Dharma
Samanya Dharma is the general Dharma or law for all men. Varnasrama Dharmas are special Dharmas which are to be practised by particular c...   » Read the article

Article - Dharma: Fundamentals Of Dharma
The Samanya Dharmas must be practised by all, irrespective of distinctions of Varna and Asrama, creed or colour. Goodness is not the prop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capital Virtues: Encyclopedia - Capital Virtues
The seven capital virtues oppose the seven capital sins and are not to be confused with the "cardinal virtues" of Catholic lore. Humility...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patience: Encyclopedia - Patience
Patience is the ability and willingness to endure a task that takes a long time, especially one that is boring. It also means not easily ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fortitude: Encyclopedia - Fortitude
Fortitude, or Strength, sometimes also called Courage, is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues of the Catholic Church. Its accompanying anima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Patriarchy: Encyclopedia - Chinese Patriarchy
Mencius outlined the Three Subordinations. A woman was to be subordinate to her father in youth, her husband in maturity, and her son in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Day Of Brahma: Encyclopedia - Day Of Brahma
In Hindu esoteric teachings, one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas, or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctrine Of The Mean: Encyclopedia - Doctrine Of The Mean
The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸; Pinyin: Zhōngyōng) is one of the Four Books, part of the Confucian canonical scriptures. Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noble Eightfold Path: Encyclopedia - Noble Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path (Pali: ariya atthangika magga), according to Buddhism and as taught by Siddhartha Buddha, is the way to the cess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bharata Ramayana: Encyclopedia - Bharata Ramayana
Bharata (Sanskrit: भरत, IAST Bharata) was the youngest brother of Lord Rama, and the son of Emperor Dasaratha and Kaikeyi of the So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Justice: Encyclopedia - Social Justice
Social Justice is a concept that has fascinated philosophers ever since Plato rebuked the young Sophist, Thrasymachus, for asserting that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics: Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics
In philosophy, the phrase virtue ethics refers to ethical systems that focus primarily on what sort of person one should try to be. Thus,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vice: Encyclopedia - Vice
Vice is the opposite of virtue. The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word vicious, which means "full of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kindness: Encyclopedia - Kindness
Kindness is the act or the state of charitable behaviour to other people. It is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wisdom: Encyclopedia - Wisdom
Wisdom is the ability to make correct judgments and decisions. It is an intangible quality gained through experience. Whether or not some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wisdom Literature: Encyclopedia - Wisdom Literature
Wisdom literature is the a genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East. This genre is characterized by praise of God, often in po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Four Books: Encyclopedia - Four Books
The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature) are Chinese classic texts that Z...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pancasila: Encyclopedia - Pancasila
Pancasila or pañca-sila is the fundamental code of Buddhist ethics, willingly undertaken by lay followers of Gautama Buddha. The term i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paramita: Encyclopedia - Paramita
Pāramitā (Sanskrit) or Parami (Pāli): "Perfection" or "Transcendent". In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culminatio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Merit And Virtue: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Merit And Virtue
Merit and Virtue These two terms are sometimes used interchangeably. However, there is a crucial difference:   merits are the b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shang: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Shang
Shang (Chinese) In the I Ching, the constant virtues -- benevolence, laws, and rites of social life, righteousness, and correctness --...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arthakrtya: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Arthakrtya
Arthakrtya One of the Four All-Embracing Virtues: performance of conduct profitable to others in order to lead them toward the truth....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samanarthata: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Samanarthata
Samanarthata Cooperation with and adaptation to others for the sake of leading them towards the truth. Samanarthata is one of the Fou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Priyavacana: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Priyavacana
Priyavacana Lit., loving or affectionate speech. This beautiful and affectionate speech is one of the Four All-Embracing Virtues and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sadhana-chatushtaya: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary Iv On Sadhana-chatushtaya
Sadhana-chatushtaya: Sadhana-chatushtaya: the four kinds of  spiritual effort: discrimination, dispassion, sixfold virtues and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Society: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Society - Gender
Mencius outlined the Three Subordinations. A woman was to be subordinate to her father in youth, her husband in maturity, and her son in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Four Books: Encyclopedia Ii - Four Books - The Doctrine Of The Mean
The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸) is now part of the Records of Rites (Chinese: 禮記, or Liji) (see Records of Ritual Matters)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anupubbi-katha: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Anupubbi-katha
anupubbi-katha (aanupubbii-kathaa): Gradual instruction. The Buddha's method of teaching Dhamma that guides his listeners progressivel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dharma: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Dharma
Dharma: A term of many meanings, including "law", "virtue", and "righteousness". In general, dharma mean...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Day Of Brahma: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Day Of Brahma
Day of Brahma In Hindu esoteric teachings, one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas, or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Montfrin: Encyclopedia Ii - Montfrin - History
In Roman times, the place was called Mons Ferinus (mountain of the ferocious animals). Charles Martel fought a battle there against the S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cable-tow: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cable-tow
Cable-tow In Freemasonry, the restraint placed upon and exercised by Masons. It is the cord enclosing the tracing beard of an Entered ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Peace And Hatred
Peace is everywhere recommended, and urged as the highest boon of man (Midrash Numbers Rabbah xi.; Talmud Pesachim i. 1.) Hatred, quarrel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teresa Of Ávila: Encyclopedia Ii - Teresa Of Ávila - Her Mysticism
The kernel of Teresa's mystical thought throughout all her writings is the ascent of the soul in four stages ("Autobiography," chap. x.-x...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knox Grammar School: Encyclopedia Ii - Knox Grammar School - School Motto
Knox's school motto is a Latin phrase "Virile Agitur", commonly translated as "Act like a man", "The manly thing is being done" or "Do th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semantic Change: Encyclopedia Ii - Semantic Change - Types
The four main types of semantic change are extension, narrowing, amelioration, and pejoration. However, there are many other types as wel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Krita Yuga, Krta Yuga: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Krita Yuga, Krta Yuga
Krita Yuga krta yuga (Sanskrit) (from krita well-done from the verbal root kri to do, make + yuga age)   The first of the four gr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Li: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Li
Li (Chinese) The third and principal of the four cardinal virtues, embracing observance of all the duties imposed by the religious, so...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ladder: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ladder
Ladder Used symbolically in many cultures, to represent a means of ascending or descending to different worlds or the structure of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euthyphro Dilemma: Encyclopedia Ii - Euthyphro Dilemma - Explanation Of The Dilemma
The first horn of the dilemma implies that morality is independent of god and, indeed, that god is bound by morality just as his creature...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arya: Encyclopedia Ii - Arya - Buddhism
The word Arya is very frequently used in Buddhist texts. Buddhist texts refer to this term much more often than do Hindu or Jain texts. B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ladder: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ladder
Ladder. There are many "ladders" in the mystic philosophies and schemes, all of which were, and some still are, used in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plutarch: Encyclopedia Ii - Plutarch - Parallel Lives
His best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged as dyads to illuminate their com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime: Encyclopedia Ii - Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime - Section One
Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Kant states that feelings of enjoyment are subjective. In this book, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Numa Pompilius: Encyclopedia Ii - Numa Pompilius - Early Life
Numa Pompilius was born on the day Romulus founded the city of Rome. He was the youngest of four sons to Pomponius, an illustrious man. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anemoi: Encyclopedia Ii - Anemoi - Minor Winds
Some accounts call these winds the wicked Anemoi- the ones controlled by Aeolus- and the other winds the heavenly Anemoi. These four wind...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakwala: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sakwala
Sakwala. This is a bana or "word" uttered by Gautama Buddha in his oral instructions. Sakwala is a mundane, or rather a sola...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samuel Smiles: Encyclopedia Ii - Samuel Smiles - Smiles's Writings
Smiles is best known today as the writer of books extolling virtues of self help, and biographies lauding the achievements of 'heroic' en...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dharma: Sai Baba Dictionary On Dharma
Dharma: Dharma: Religious principles; one's eternal, natural occupation (i.e. devotional service to the Lord) [Sastras] (Bhagavatha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attalus I: Encyclopedia Ii - Attalus I - Wife And Sons
Attalus married Apollonis, from Cyzicus. They had four sons, Eumenes, Attalus, Philetaerus and Athenaeus (after Apollonis' father).47 Pol...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakvala, Sakwala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sakvala, Sakwala
Sakvala Gautama Buddha uttered this "word" (vana) in his oral instructions to denote "a solar system, of which there is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mansfield Park Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Mansfield Park Novel - Plot
The main character, Fanny Price, is sent at an early age from her poor family to live with her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friendship: Encyclopedia Ii - Friendship - A Tradition In Decline
In recent times, some thinkers have postulated that modern friendships have lost the force and importance that they had in antiquity. C. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kali Yuga: Encyclopedia Ii - Kali Yuga - Problems That Arise
There is an increase in material technology but there is a huge decrease in spirituality. Kali Yuga is the only Yuga in which irreligion/...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lakers-celtics Rivalry: Encyclopedia Ii - Lakers-celtics Rivalry - 1983-84 Nba Finals Recap
By virtue of a 62-20 record, the Celtics had homecourt advantage over the Lakers who finished the regular season with a 54-28 mark. The f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Paris: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Paris - Organization In The Thirteenth Century
As completing the work of organization the diploma of Philip Augustus and the statutes of Robert de Courçon are worthy of note. The king...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yuga: Sai Baba Dictionary On Yuga
Yuga: Yuga: Ages in the life of a universe, occurring in a repeated cycle of four. Era or age. There is a cycle of four yugas: Saty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - V For Vendetta: Encyclopedia Ii - V For Vendetta - Plot
V for Vendetta - Volume 1: Europe After The Reign. Consists of: Chapter One, The Villain; Chapter Two, The Voice; Chapter Three, Victim...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yuga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Yuga
yuga: (Sanskrit) "Period, age."   One of four ages which chart the duration of the world according to Hindu thought. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitution Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Constitution Of Egypt - Chapter Four: Sovereignty Of The Law
Article.64: The Sovereignty of the law is the basis of State rule. Article.65: The State shall be subject to law. The independence and im...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Varna Dharma: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Varna Dharma
varna dharma: (Sanskrit) "The way of one's kind."   The hereditary social class system, generally referred to as caste...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Varna Dharma: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Varna Dharma
varna dharma: (Sanskrit) "The way of one's kind."   The hereditary social class system, generally referred to as caste...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Varna Dharma: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Varna Dharma
varna dharma: (Sanskrit) "The way of one's kind."   The hereditary social class system, generally referred to as caste...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zoolatry: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zoolatry
Zoolatry [from Greek zoon animal + latreia worship]   Animal worship; animal symbols are found in all religions, as in the religi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grihastha Dharma: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Grihastha Dharma
grihastha dharma: (Sanskrit) "Householder law."   The virtues and ideals of family life. This dharma includes all nonm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purushartha: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Purushartha
purushartha: (Sanskrit) "Human wealth or purpose."   The four pursuits in which humans may legitimately engage, also c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Azhi-dahaka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Azhi-dahaka
Azhi-Dahaka (Avestan) Zahak (Persian) (from azhi, azi serpent; cf Sanskrit ahi)   The destroying serpent or dragon; in the Avesta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Caste: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Caste
caste: There are four castes, each with its own duties, rules, regulations and hierarchy. Within each caste there are hundreds of subc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ten-brel Chug-nyi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ten-brel Chug-nyi
Ten-brel Chug-nyi rTen-hBrel hchu-gnis (Tibetan) In philosophy, the twelve interdependent contributories to the origination of all phe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Six: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Six
Six The number of manifestation; the ancients reasoned that since the basis of all manifested nature was sextal -- such as six fundame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Ancient Jedi: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Ancient Jedi - Thon
A large, four-legged ceratopsian beast with sharp spikes on his shoulders and strange, upturned mouth appendages, Thon is in reality a Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Ancient Jedi: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Ancient Jedi - Thon
A large, four-legged ceratopsian beast with sharp spikes on his shoulders and strange, upturned mouth appendages, Thon is in reality a Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mahakala: Encyclopedia Ii - Mahakala - The Six-armed Shadbhuja Mahakala Mgon Po Phyag Drug Pa
This form is most favored by the Gelukpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, and in this manifestation Mahakala is considered to be the fierce and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Loka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Loka
Loka (Sanskrit) Place, locality; in Brahmanic literature, heavens; in theosophical literature, world, sphere, plane. Used in the metap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy Of Angels: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy Of Angels - First Sphere
The angels of the first sphere were thought to serve as heavenly counselors. Hierarchy of angels - Seraphim. The Seraphim are the highe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raphael Rooms: Encyclopedia Ii - Raphael Rooms - Hall Of Constantine
Raphael Rooms - The Baptism of Constantine. Raphael Rooms - The Battle of Pons Milvius. Raphael Rooms - The Vision of the Cross. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dinesh D'souza: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinesh D'souza - Success In The Speaking Circuit
One of the country's most successful conservative authors and speakers, D'Souza routinely is paid $10,000 or more for his lectures and ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue Ethics - Virtue Ethics Contrasted With Deontology And Consequentialism
The methods of virtue ethics are in contrast to the dominant methods in ethical philosophy, which focus on actions. For example, both Kan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philo: Encyclopedia Ii - Philo - Views On Virtue
Philo holds that good moral endowment takes precedence of teaching and practise. Virtue here is not the result of hard labor, but is the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vice: Encyclopedia Ii - Vice - Popular Usage
The term vice is also popularly applied to various activities considered immoral by some; a list of these might include the use of alcoho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime: Encyclopedia Ii - Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime - Section Two
Of the Attributes of the Beautiful and Sublime in Man in General Kant described the relationship between these finer feelings and humanit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noble Eightfold Path: Encyclopedia Ii - Noble Eightfold Path - Virtue Ethical Conduct
(sila) 3. Right Speech - samma vaca "And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, abstaining from divisive speech, abstaining from ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Decameron: Encyclopedia Ii - The Decameron - Analysis
Throughout Decameron the mercantile ethic prevails and predominates. The commercial and urban values of quick wit, sophistication and int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Stoic Ethics And Virtues
The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used meant different things in the past than they do today. The word st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Stoic Ethics And Virtues
The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used meant different things in the past than they do today. The word st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visuddhimagga: Encyclopedia Ii - Visuddhimagga - Seven Steps
This comparison between practice and "seven relay chariots" points at the goal. Each purity is needed to attain the next. Purity in term...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Influences Of Earlier Greek Ethical Systems
Aristotle's ethics builds upon earlier Greek ethics, particularly that of Aristotle's teacher Plato and his teacher, Socrates. One import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wunshibanbon: Encyclopedia Ii - Wunshibanbon - Why Wunshibanbon Is Important?
According to the eastern philosophy, everything is changing and it has its own cycle. It is not difficult to find a cycle. Even our plane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Capital Vices And Virtues
The seven capital vices or seven deadly sins suggest a classification of vices and were enumerated by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Virtue And Vice
The opposite of a virtue is a vice. One way of organizing the vices is as the corruption of the virtues. Thus the cardinal vices would be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Unity Of The Virtues
Classically, some philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle, said that in order to pursue any of these virtues perfectly, one would ...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhism Sitemap I - F
This is a sitemap for Buddhism - F . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article