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** Egoism, the belief that the moral person is the self-interested person, holds that an action is right if it maximizes good for the self.
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** Moh, a vice in Sikh belief
** knows of the claimant's mistaken belief ; and
** a coherent belief system for imposing symbolic meaning on the external world, with an emphasis on security through faith in the system ;
** the belief that the ideology is in some way natural or obvious, so that ( at least for certain groups of people ) those who reject it are in some way " blind "
** fatalism-a belief that the ideology will inevitably triumph in the end
** take decisions under incomplete knowledge and perhaps revise that belief or decision when complete knowledge becomes available.
** The 8 points of belief
** Posthumous attempts to kill his wife, Imogen, in Cymbeline, under the false belief that she had committed adultery.
** Designed for cable haulage up and down 1 in 100 grades at Rainhill in the belief that locomotive haulage was impracticable.
** rapture, a Christian belief about the End Times and the transport of redeemed souls.
** Beliefset: Beliefs are stored in database ( sometimes called a belief base or a belief set ), although that is an implementation decision.
** Nature of knowing: what are the differences between information, data, belief, faith, opinion, knowledge and wisdom?
** Gravel Technicians for the American penchant for specialist grades with no meaning beyond private, and the belief infantry privates should be recognized as specialized in something ...
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** Error theory, another form of moral anti-realism, holds that although ethical claims do express propositions, all such propositions are false.
** Moral relativism maintains that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition.
** Amongst them, there are those who hold that moral knowledge is gained inferentially on the basis of some sort of non-moral epistemic process, as opposed to ethical intuitionism.
** Ethical intuitionism, on the other hand, is the view according to which some moral truths can be known without inference.
** Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative, which roots morality in humanity's rational capacity and asserts certain inviolable moral laws.
** The Contractarianism of John Rawls, which holds that the moral acts are those that we would all agree to if we were unbiased.
** The New Super-Spirituality: Claims the intellectual decadence of students and the counter-culture from the late sixties to the early seventies can be traced back to the conformism of their fathers, only with fewer moral absolutes, and predicts the contamination of the church.
** Enrile gets through to Cardinal Sin and seeks his moral and active support, as the former felt that he will not survive the day.
** Kohlberg's stages of moral development
** Possesses a moral compass that unerringly points to " do the right thing "-an ethical warrior
** Corruption: Each member of the court possesses his or her own political agenda and is willing to do anything to further his or her own gains, including setting aside moral codes.
** Specific amorality, the absence of some particular moral standard, principle, code, or knowledge
** Adam Bede is described as a tall, stalwart, moral, and unusually competent carpenter.
** Stages of moral development
** The school curriculum should contribute to the development of pupils ' sense of identity through knowledge and understanding of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural heritages of Britain's diverse society and of the local, national, European, Commonwealth and global dimensions of their lives.
** The school curriculum should promote pupils ' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and, in particular, develop principles for distinguishing between right and wrong.
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** Child abduction, the abduction or kidnapping of a young child ( or baby ) by an older person
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** Canonization, the process of declaring a person to be a Saint
** Subject pronouns are used when the person or thing is the subject of the sentence or clause.
** Object pronouns are used when the person or thing is the object of the sentence or clause.
** This could be any position in which the speaker — whether an acknowledged expert on the subject, or an acquaintance of a person who experienced the matter in question — knows about the topic.
** A life estate pur autre vie is held by one person for the natural life of another person.
** a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living
** 103. lawrencium, Lr, named after Ernest O. Lawrence, a physicist best known for development of the cyclotron, and the person for whom the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( which hosted the creation of these transuranium elements ) are named ( 1961 ).
** Unit of observation, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is collected
** Unit of analysis, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is analyzed
** The billionth living person in India is born.
** In Milan, Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra.
** Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever, dies at age 122 years 164 days in Arles, France.
** The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.
** Walter James Bolton, Last person to be executed in New Zealand ( b. 1888 )
** John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida near Miami and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board 25 ' ocean rowboat ' Britannia ' ( left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969 ).
** Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.
** Judith Keppel, first person to win £ 1, 000, 000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
** Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey's team.
** Marie-Louise Meilleur, oldest living person at the time of her death ( b. 1880 )
** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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