However throughout his reign Akbar adopted a number of measures in the religious sphere that have been termed as liberal. ... It was these measures and especially the new state policy that became a major controversial factor with Akbar's critics accusing him of being a heretic. However, one needs to have a better understanding of these measures and the motivating factors behind their adoption before drawing conclusions about their nature. ... Before we go on to study this process and the various measures adopted by Akbar it would be important to understand the context and environment u...

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The Puritan's ethics were lead by self discipline in order to improve their spirituality. They imposed concrete belief in the Bible and lived by all measures of it. Maintaining your life based on the Bible sets valuable limits. Prior to following the Bible, the Puritans looked at laughter and ple...

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The film Crimes and Misdemeanors, By Woody Allen is a film with a variety of characters who portray different perspectives. With the main theme of the film being truth, whether it is morally right or wrong, is a subject that most of the characters can't grasp on to. The characters that seem to be the most truthful have the most to hide, where as the characters that are made out to be liars, or who are morally wrong are really the honest ones. ... After Ben, a rabbi and a longtime friend of Judah's seems to give him an option on what to do about the situation, Judah takes a very ext...

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Religious leaders fear losing their values and take extraordinary measures to keep their message alive. ... His character shows how a healthy balance between the two can lead to happiness and understanding. ...

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Bernard Shaw's characters Andrew Undershaft and Alfred Doolittle have the same ideas about human morality. ... The pressure of having something while others have nothing causes people to take measures on the behalf of other humans. ...

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No man can measure God and He is not limited by space or time. ... This means that because God is so good He cant do anything which violates His own character. ... Doesn't this mean that by sending a person to hell for a offence that was a limited crime, He is doing evil as Hell in an unlimited punishment, and therefore going against His own character. ...

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Oedipus the King In the pheado written by Plato (427-347 b.c.) Socrates was asked by Plato who was his pupil to define soul and body. Socrates" answer to this question was that body is "human" and "mortal" and that soul is "divine" and "immortal". This is important because from Socrates, Plato...

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Aristotle places great emphasis on the moral virtue of temperance in relation to the nature of states of character. ... Humans must induce action with a proper measure of pleasure and pain early in life in order to have the ability to move towards the noble. ...

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In book five, Augustine spoke of this principle by comparing two men: "A man who knows that he owns a tree and thanks you for the use he has of it, even though he does not know its exact height or the width of its spread, is better than another who measures it and counts all its branches, but neither owns it nor loves its Creator. ... (IV, 89) Despite all of the negative aspects of his education on which Augustine focused, it is obvious that his schooling was an essential part of his character. ...

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Plato considered that there must be a measure of goodness in order to identify God as benevolent and maintained there to be standard of 'goodness' that is independent of God. ... "For example a thing that is said to be 'hotter' is accordant with its resemblance of that which is 'hottest'"15; the independent measure that Plato inquired there should be, in this case, is temperature. ...

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The rebellions are usually about people not being able to deal with certain measures of coercion, which raises the question of how far the prohibition of certain things can take a person. ... And following this is the turning of the nature character into gods. ...

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