Confucianism took a humanistic approach in which an individual's action determined whether they were good or bad. ... Confucianism believed that human beings were born "good, " therefore one was prompted to obey with oughtness. ... There was no total good and evil or negative and positive. ... The everlasting attempt of Yin and Yang provoked the idea that humanity must try to balance the opposites of Heaven and Earth and ultimately live to get from Yang to Yin. Nature was the balance between the two, Heaven and Earth. ...

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God love was predominantly mentioned which in other word could be seen as a protection or reward for good deed and ideas behaviors by showing the characters of religious figures. ... Not only that the poem uses various adjective and adverb to inculcate Christianity religion in the writing but also the imagination of Religious beliefs such as God love, kindness and hope in rewards for any consequences with idea of good and bad behaviors. ... In addition to beginning of the poem, the writer uses an idea about how the God created the earth in a brilliant flat circle with water which is correlated...

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Christians follow certain rituals throughout the year to remind themselves of the great cosmological battle they are in-between " that of Good and Evil. ... In their cosmology, they were in the godly realm of Paradise, kicked out, and must now live on earth in efforts to prove themselves worthy again by the time of their death. The Native Americans on the other hand, believe that the spirit world is more closely related to the earth than the early European settlers. ... Their cosmology did not dictate a world where spirits were primarily a part of a different world as was in the European...

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Today marks the anniversary of the alien invasion that conquered the earth one hundred years ago. ... Many languages have disappeared from the face of the Earth, simply because here is nothing to help remember them except plain memorization tactics. ... The way people feel about themselves has changed dramatically, too; individuals see themselves as free and reasonable people who can rationalize good from bad. ... There is not so much emphasis on looking good, it is more about feeling good and having confidence. ...

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The Forefathers, Tepeu and Gucumatz, spoke and summoned for humanity to appear on the earth. ... Similarly, in the Book of Genesis it is said that the all powerful, Yahweh, Is the sole creator of the earth. ... Although all that Yahweh produced was "good," as stated in the story, the single initiator situation reflects the actions of a common known political system, called dictatorship. ...

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Land is being protected, trees saved as new ways are sought to produce safe and effective energy for people are recognizing that Earth's natural resources are slowly dwindling. ... Furthermore, man's mission on earth to rule is not emphasized but moreso to be a good caretaker of the Garden, which he failed and was exiled from Heaven. Clearly this decree in the Bible preaches taking care of God's Garden which now can be interepreted as Earth. ...

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Mary Shelley might have used religion reference as a method of showing us how something that happened during the creation of the earth can be related and brought to us via modern day fantasy creations. ... As it goes in the bible, God created Lucifer as the most brilliant and beautiful angel in the sky with good intentions, but Lucifer turned his back on his creator and began a notorious streak of evil as the "malignant devil." ... By the monster(evil) overtaking its creator(good), in a way it forecasts the overtaking of good by evil. ... The surrounding evil overtaking good has a direct relig...

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Christians believe that it is a sin not to follow the commandments of God and when we leave this earth if we have submitted to the will of God we will be with God in his kingdom. Jews believe that they are "the chosen people" and that a Messiah or messenger will come to redeem humans and that the kingdom of Gods will be made on earth. ... For instance, Confucian teaches that good government is important and leaders should not be chosen because of relationships but on the basis of characteristics of ability and virtue and that the purpose of government should be for the happiness and total w...

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Much of political theory operated around an inherent expectation of the human to be an entity who was capable of making good decisions and submitting to societal needs. ... As Plato states that his ideal society can only exist "in heaven ", he concurrently denies any ability of humans to restrain self-interest for the greater good of society. ... Whereas Plato deems humans unable to truly contribute to an ideal society, Aristotle believes that through education and teaching of virtues, an ideal state can indeed be created on earth. ...

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That the most acceptable Service we render to him, is doing Good to his other Children. ... A particular example that Bradford states is "being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element" (Bradford, 124). ...

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Thus, it is no coincidence that the grandmother is later specified to be 2,000 years old, which happens to be when Christian theology reads God's first coming to Earth. ... An overall theme of good versus evil is present in The Princess and the Goblin, just as it is in religion. ... The goblins only come out at night, or in the absence of the light in which is perceived to be a source of good. Likewise, the human characters (grandmother, Irene, Curdie, etc.) are depicted as good, fighting the good fight. This battle between good and evil is clear, and ends the novel with good winning jus...

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Man is in eternal conflict with himself and with his surroundings because of the coexistence of good and evil both within and around him. It is therefore necessary for him to encounter these evil forces to be able to make a distinction between the good and the bad in order to recognize and resist the immoral. "Young Goodman Brown," a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the disillusionment of the story's protagonist, on encountering evil and discovering that evil is more prevalent than good in the world. ... While his resolve to remain good is strong, he must decide only after enc...

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He believed that the natural condition of man was social cooperation – sharing their profits so that all would benefit and working together for the greater good. ... Plato explains in "The Republic" that the guardian is to be a really good and noble guardian of the state who will unite in himself philosophy, spirit, swiftness and strength (Plato, pg. 9). ... What Hobbes is saying is, human beings are put on this earth to look out for themselves; and if scarcity were to occur, they would look the other way if someone else needed help. ... They both agreed that government shou...

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Mayans had a tradition more similar to the Abrahamic religions; those deemed good would go to a realm similar to Heaven, whereas the guilty and evil would suffer eternally in the Mayan underworld, Xibalba. ... Popes believed themselves to be the closest person/messenger of God, on Earth, and the pharaohs were thought of as being semi-divine. ...

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Aristotle's Politics is a continuation of his Nicomachean Ethics, whose investigation of what is the supreme good for a human being he conceives as "a sort of political science", politike tis (I.2.1094b11). ... Book III.1-13: city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political justice Books III.14- IV: types of constitutions: kingship, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, constitutional government, tyranny; the best constitution (a) for most human beings, (b) relative to specified conditions ". . . we will perhaps grasp bett...

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Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the day on which Jesus rose have become holy days. ... Those who are Christians therefore believe that not only are they saved from their sins but also look forward to the day where Jesus will come again and judge all the living and the dead and those that have been faithful and good will ascend into heaven. Until that day Christians believe that the Spirit of God lives in them, and guides and strengthens them in their pilgrimage on earth. ...

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Bill and Melinda, two of the most giving human beings on earth, are agnostic; they don't practice religious guidelines, and from observation, just do good things. ... This is proof, hard fact that one doesn't have to believe in God to be a good person; one can see a need, and address it because they innately know that it is the right thing to do. ...

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More specifically, the earth (and all beings on it) is embodied in these religions as a living being that deserves respect just as a human would, and is passed down from one generation to another (Nath, 2010). ... On the opposing side of the argument, there is a the idea that vegetarianism lacks a good cause. ...

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All men are encouraged to perform good deeds or otherwise they will suffer for the rest of their lives. ... Surely your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days -- then sat Himself upon the Throne, covering the day with the night it pursues urgently -- and the sun, and the moon, and the stars subservient, by His command. ...

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Prometheus was the one who stole the fire from the Gods and brought it down to Earth and throughout his punishment remained defiant . ... Humanists believe in fully-experiencing everything life has to offer and believe in living the "good life." ...

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The downside to this however would be the inability that one could take in enjoying certain noxious pleasures, glory, and the good life. ... No sect and no religion has always existed on earth except Christianity." ... There are many variables that Pascal did not take into consideration when calculating the odds he claimed were good enough for non-belief to be entirely out of the question, or even a different belief to be valid. ...

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He describes speech as, "a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state" (Politics Book I.ii). ... Machiavelli says that the possibility exist that some men will behave virtuously in a political society, however he cautions men against such an attempt when he writes, "For man who wants to make a profession of good in all regards must come to ruin among so many who are not good" (172). ... He discounts the traditional vices and virtues ...

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This pithy comment is indeed a good summation up Marx's straightforward appraisal of religion, which he said "eased pain even as it created fantasies" for those masses of oppressed workers suffering at the hands of a powerful few (141)*. ... People would have duties and roles, but their work would be an extension of their personality and would be inherently fulfilling to them, while at the same time contributing to the good of the entire community. ... Marx insisted that stratification would occur soon thereafter when "by talent, crime, or good fortune, some acquire more and better priva...

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Future of an Illusion Religion today is a topic of many controversial arguments. It being one of the main basis of our development as a civilization, it is hard for it to still keep its place in a world as developed as ours, as the advanced and modern ideas of today start to contradict with the...

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