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Taoism Religious Taoism appropriated earlier interest and belief in alchemy and the search for the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone. By the 5th cent. A.D., Taoism was a fully developed religious system with many features adopted f...
the next life. You can't be happy as a human being if you're worried about being punished or victimized by powerful divine beings. But you can be happy if you believe in the four basic truths of Epicureanism: there are no divine beings whic...
of normative ethics. It began as an ethical movement in the late eighteenth century. This doctrine holds that an action is right if it is useful or beneficial for the majority of people. An action is also right if it promotes happiness. The...
Charles the Great carried out a reform in education. The English monk Alcuin of York elaborated a project of scholarly development aimed at resuscitating classical knowledge by establishing programmes of study based upon the seven liberal ...
that antedate those found in Europe and Asia is purely conjectural. At the present, however, paleontologists are fairly consistent in the belief that the cultural objects found in the Americas surpass those of the same age in the Old World...
the Hellenistic period? After the death of Alexander the Great, his united empire disintegrated into four Hellenistic empires, Macedonia, Syria, Attalid and Egypt (Spielvogel 2012). The Hellenistic period produced a large quantity of litera...