1. The unification of India came about when the Persian emperor Darius crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and conquered portions of northwestern India; there he established the kingdom of Gandhara in present-day Punjab. Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later‚ Alexander of Macedon crossed the Indus River and destroyed the states he found. Although his campaign had an effect on politics and history in India‚ he created a
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life span of ancient Indians. More of progressive enlightened philosophy than a religion‚ Buddhism illuminated the path to righteousness‚ good heartedness‚ honor and virtue through the Eight Fold path and the Four Noble Truths. Hinduism emphasizes asceticism (refraining from the “wants of life and its worldly pleasure”) and reincarnation‚ or rebirth of an individual in the hopes of the ascension of one’s soul based on the results of the past lives and the attempt to be released of the “wheel of life”
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Religion is a great topic to develop and more when you compare and contrast them. Everyone has different views based on their belief. In this essay Im going to compare two basic religions that are still use in today’s society after so many years of development. These religions are buddhism and christianity. Considered to be the two great distinctive religions of the world‚ both Buddhism & Christianity today covers a large section of the world population with numerous similarities and differences
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Tirthankar stands for "fordmaker" meaning that he is "the founder of a "Tirth" which is a community of Jains which acts as a "ford" across the "river of human misery"." (http://en.wikipeda.org/wiki/Tirthankar). A Tirthankar is a person who refrains from asceticism‚ or refraining from worldly pleasures‚ reaches enlightenment or perfect knowledge. After accomplishing enlightenment‚ his mission is to shows way to enlightenment to others. Once the Tirthankar has reached that enlightenment his knowledge is pure
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Thecla The character of Thecla first appears in the late-second century text the Acts of Paul and Thecla Briefly‚ Paul is depicted as preaching a message of chastity in Iconium‚ which causes Thecla to become enamored with his words and to abandon her responsibilities to her mother and her fiancé in order to follow Paul. She overcomes two persecutions by miraculous means‚ eventually baptizing herself in a pool of ravenous seals that are miraculously killed by a lightning bolt before they can
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church. For Clark‚ the seriousness and love for academic enabled Jerome to go far in sound education and his scholastic achievements.[v] At the completion of his Roman education‚ he was baptized at about AD 366.[vi] Saint Jerome was an Apostle of asceticism with deep interest in Roman classics and philosophy. His conversion and interest in Christian thoughts and writings was as a result of a dream he had in which he was accused of been a follower of Cicero rather than been a follower of Jesus Christ
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The religious philosophy of Siddhartha Guatama had a major impact on the people of India and China. He discovered many things that helped him understand the different things that he once could not because of the better life that he lived than others around him. The time he spent searching for answers had a major impact on the people after he concluded things. The things that the discovered influenced two countries to follow what was stated in the basic tenets of Buddhism. These basic tenets influenced
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many in the faith‚ which caused many believers desiring a more pious Christian faith to flee into the desert to “protest the church’s compromise and to start a countermovement of discipleship.” The believers who wanted to practice uninhibited asceticism sans the temptations of societal evils decided to practice the ascetic life in the desert‚ which offered them an environment that not only allowed them to surrender themselves to God but made surrender necessary due to the harshness of the desert
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development of what he terms the capitalist “spirit”. Weber explains the centrality of the work ethic to the religious ideals of the Protestant sects. At the crux of his argument‚ Weber associates this work ethic‚ viewed as a kind of inner-worldly asceticism‚ as directly causal to the domination of capitalist society in England‚ Europe‚ and America. He uses tools such as statistics on higher education and economic success(p.44)‚ and linguistic analysis of the Protestant versus Catholic doctrines. There
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Immanuel Kant Summery: There are two faculties of the mind: theoretical reason and practical reason. Theoretical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What can I know?"‚ while practical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What ought I to do?". For Kant‚ practical reason issues a duty to respect its law. That is‚ morality is not rooted in consequences (consequentialism)‚ but rather in sheer duty (deontological ethics). For Kant‚ practical reason issues a "categorical imperative"
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