It is closely connected with the notion that all kinds of violence entail negative karmic consequences.

The same text, however, also exempts religious sacrifice from the notion of " violence " since the victim of the sacrifice was taken to benefit from the act as it would be reborn in a higher position.

After the end of World War II, a series of violent anti-Semitic incidents occurred throughout Europe, particularly in the Soviet-liberated East, where most of the returning Jews came back after liberation by the Allied Powers, and where the Nazi propagandists had extensively promoted the notion of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy ( see Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944 – 1946 and Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, 1944 – 1946 ).

Corday ’ s notion that she was saving a hundred thousand echoes this Girondin sentiment as they attempted to slow the revolution and reverse the violence that had escalated since the September Massacres.

Although much like the gods, these figures were not always depicted without considerable moral ambiguity: “ On this account, the other traditional notion of the daemon as related to the souls of the dead is elided in favour of a spatial scenario which evidently also graduated in moral terms ; though says nothing of that here, it is a necessary inference from her account, just as Eros is midway between deficiency and plenitude … Indeed, Xencrates … explicitly understood daemones as ranged along a scale from good to bad … speaks of ‘ great and strong beings in the atmosphere, malevolent and morose, who rejoice in days, religious festivals involving violence against the self, etc., and after gaining them as their lot, they turn to nothing worse .’… The use of such malign daemones by human beings seems not to be even remotely imagined here:

English film critic Mark Kermode opined that while the film is shoddily made, its subject matter " horrible, grim, and nasty ," and its perceived notion that " violence begets violence " comes off as " obnoxious ," it stands as a " very, very important work in the evolution of American horror cinema " because of the events influencing and surrounding its creation and release, namely television footage of the Vietnam War.

Themes such as violence and the notion of discovery are intertwined with a sense of romance between characters Fox and Bailey.

One study in 1999 by Geiser gave further evidence to this notion and reported that in fact males are significantly more likely to engage in nonverbal aggression and violence.

While the UK Department of Health connects children ’ s exposure to domestic violence to parents ' failure to protect them from emotional harm, the notion of " failure to protect " has been challenged as it focuses primarily on the responsibility of the abused parent, usually the mother, who is often herself at significant risk.

Zur Linde's reflections articulate a typical trait of fascism, the notion of sacrificial violence and rejection of the sentiment of empathy for his victim, his dehumanization and blaming.

In parts of the world where puppet shows have traditionally been children's entertainment, many find the notion of puppets in decidedly adult situations — for example, involving drugs, sex, or violence — to be humorous, because of the bizarre contrast it creates between subject matter and characters.

Indeed, the City ’ s citizens have apparently become so bored in the midst of this perfection that their notion of amusement and even artistry and creativity is to pursue the mental stimulation that comes from watching heinous, barbarous acts of graphic violence.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

and of a notion of sacrifice, on the other.

This is the notion that particular cultures should not be judged by one culture's values or viewpoints, but that all cultures should be viewed as relative to each other.

There is thus, on the one hand, the notion of completeness of a deductive system and on the other hand that of completeness of a set of non-logical axioms.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

The popular notion of a black hole " sucking in everything " in its surroundings is therefore only correct near a black hole's horizon ; far away, the external gravitational field is identical to that of any other body of the same mass.

Among other things he came up with the notion of Gaussian curvature.

The notion can be generalized to other spaces as described below.

Crucial to the Jewish notion of chosenness is that it creates obligations exclusive to Jews, while non-Jews receive from God other covenants and other responsibilities.

It rejects the notion that Jesus or any other object or living being could be ' God ', that God could have a literal ' son ' in physical form or is divisible in any way, or that God could be made to be joined to the material world in such fashion.

Pepper, the notion of the concept album came to the forefront of the popular and critical mind, with the earlier prototypes and examples from traditional pop music and other genres sometimes forgotten.

The equations are one way of looking at the condition on a function to be differentiable in the sense of complex analysis: in other words they encapsulate the notion of function of a complex variable by means of conventional differential calculus.

In the theory there are several other major ways of looking at this notion, and the translation of the condition into other language is often needed.

The notion of definability treated in this article has been chosen primarily for definiteness, not on the grounds that it's more useful or interesting than other notions.

In Europe, the notion of human influence on climate gained wide acceptance more rapidly than in the United States and other countries.

In a brief put forth by the Council for Responsible Genetics, it was stated that sexual orientation is not fixed either way, and on the discourse over sexual orientation: " Noticeably missing from this debate is the notion, championed by Kinsey, that human sexual expression is as variable among people as many other complex traits.

Howison, in his book The Limits of Evolution and Other Essays Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Idealism, created a democratic notion of personal idealism that extended all the way to God, who was no more the ultimate monarch but the ultimate democrat in eternal relation to other eternal persons.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

In other words, the kelpie of folklore has been transformed into a more realistic and contemporary notion of the creature.

The notion of werewolves and other lycanthropes infecting humans through bites is a feature of modern fiction.

The notion of a lexeme is very central to morphology, and thus, many other notions can be defined in terms of it.

The pre-existing notion of consortium imperii, the sharing of imperial power, and the notion that an associate to the throne was the designated successor ( possibly conflicting with the notion of hereditary claim by birth or adoption ), was to reappear repeatedly.

The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European * Dhagho-deiwos " shining divinity ", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as " splendour ".

So the whole notion of a ' corresponding withdrawal ', a withdrawal of the only force which can possibly restore the position, which can possibly ensure any of the objectives which have been talked about on either side of the House, is in contradiction of the determination to repossess the Falklands ".

Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor and possibly Jared Diamond, although his status as an environmental determinist is debated.

Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor, and possibly Jared Diamond or Philip M. Parker.

As political tensions in Israel got worse — and possibly because Moledet, then part of the National Union, was not so clearly associated with the notion of transfer — Moledet finally joined the coalition in 2001.

The notion of a heliocentric solar system, with the Sun at the center, is possibly first suggested in the Vedic literature of ancient India, which often refer to the Sun as the " centre of spheres ".

For example if the state transition system includes a notion of silent ( or internal ) action, often denoted with, i. e. actions which are not visible by external observers, then bisimulation can be relaxed to be weak bisimulation, in which if two states and are bisimilar and there is some number of internal actions leading from to some state then there must exist state such that there is some number ( possibly zero ) of internal actions leading from to.

The notion may be extended for 3-dimensional space and higher dimensions, as well as for other coordinate axes, possibly with other names.

While granting that Cesare Borgia may have indeed given a feast at the Vatican, de Roo attempts, through exhaustive research, to refute the notion that the Borgias-certainly not the pope-could have possibly participated in " a scene truly bestial " such as Burchard describes, on grounds that it would be inconsistent with:

The notion of receptivity is a crucial Japanese idea — possibly a “ tradition.

Bell test experiments or Bell's inequality experiments are designed to demonstrate the real world existence of certain theoretical consequences of the phenomenon of entanglement in quantum mechanics which could not possibly occur according to a classical picture of the world, characterised by the notion of local realism.

The name “ purgatorium ” could possibly have been used here originally with its Latin meaning as a place for cleansing and purging — much like a modern sauna ; especially since the modern notion of “ purgatory ” as a place for punishment in the afterlife did not come into common use until the thirteenth century.

He entertains the notion that he is the most cunning and intelligent creature in the Abyss ; indeed, there are few who could possibly contest such a claim.