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21envy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. enviousness, jealousy; covetousness, cupidity, spite; ill will, malice; greenness. v. begrudge; desire, crave, covet, hanker, turn green. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. jealousy, resentment, covetousness,… …
22recreancy — n. Dastardliness, cowardice, pusillanimity, mean spiritedness …
23pusillanimity — n. cowardice; mean spiritedness. ♦ pusillanimous, a …
24Public good — For the egalitarian terms, see Common good and Public interest. In economics, a public good is a good that is nonrival and non excludable. Non rivalry means that consumption of the good by one individual does not reduce availability of the good… …
25Nicomachean Ethics — Part of a series on Aristotle …
26Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… …
27Niccolò Machiavelli — Machiavelli redirects here. For other uses, see Machiavelli (disambiguation). Niccolò Machiavelli Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito Full name Niccolò Machiavelli Born …
28Confucianism — Confucianist, n., adj. /keuhn fyooh sheuh niz euhm/, n. the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and… …
29Demon — For other uses, see Demon (disambiguation). St. Anthony plagued by demons, as imagined by Martin Schongauer, in the 1480s. A demon (or daemon, from Ancient Greek, δαίμων), is a supernatural being from various religions, occultisms, literatures,… …
30Soul — For other uses, see Soul (disambiguation). A soul – in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions – is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object.[1] Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach… …
