10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMERITORIOUS»
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demeritorious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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An Anthology Regarding Merit Goods: The Unfinished Ethical ...
Where the interference is negative the good is considered demeritorious. Since
the discussion of merit goods in the literature has not been too explicit, we turn to
the nature or characteristics of these goods. Merit goods, like social goods, have
...
Thus, it is clear that a good or bad act counts as praiseworthy or blameworthy
because it is in the power of the will, as right or sinful because of its order to an
end, and as meritorious or demeritorious in accordance with the recompense ...
Thomas Aquinas, Jeffrey Hause, Robert Pasnau, 2014
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Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the ...
So there exists in Buddhism a difference between a "sin" and an offense; the
Buddhist equivalent of the notion of sin seems to be papa kamma, "demeritorious
action," which is to be clearly distinguished from the concept of an offense
against a ...
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Buddhism in Translations
When it succeeds a meritorious sense- consciousness, it is a meritorious fruition ;
when it succeeds a demeritorious sense-consciousness, it is a demeritorious
fruition. Accordingly it is to be understood that two fruition-consciousnesses occur
...
Henry Clarke Warren, 1998
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500 BC BUDDHA, The Word:
And he strives toward off that through which eviland demeritorious things, greed
and sorrow, would arise, if he remained with unguarded senses; and he watches
over his senses, restrains his senses. Possessed ofthis noble "Control overthe ...
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A Manual of Buddhist Philosophy: Cosmology
Universal mental properties, common to every act of consciousness, and neither
meritorious nor demeritorious, five in number. Particular mental properties, found
only in certain types of mentation, but neither meritorious nor demeritorious, five ...
William Montgomery McGovern, 2013
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A Buddhist Reader: Selections from the Sacred Books
These are meritorious fruitions when their objects are desirable or desirable-
neutral, and demeritorious fruitions when their objects are undesirable or
undesirable-neutral. Accordingly it is to be understood that ten fruition-
consciousnesses ...
Henry Clarke Warren, 2012
8
The Expectations of Morality
Alan Donagan. for example, takes the position thai "demeritorious" or
blameworthy acts are either serious enough to constitute the violation of moral
obligation, or else they are demeritorious only in a non-moral sense. Self-
righteousness and ...
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Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2:
Third Article WHETHER A HUMAN ACT IS MERITORIOUS OR
DEMERITORIOUS IN SO FAR AS IT IS GOOD OR EVIL? We proceed thus to the
Third Article: — Objection 1. It would seem that a human act is not meritorious or
demeritorious ...
Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis, 1997
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Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of the Higher Teaching
What is meritorious action? It is favorable action (ku≈alakarma) associated with
the realm of desire (kåmapratisaμyukta). What is demeritorious action? It is
unfavorable action (aku≈alakarma). What is immovable action? It is favorable
action ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMERITORIOUS»
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demeritorious is used in the context of the following news items.
Brian Williams will lose his job for giving us what we wanted to hear
That ageless impulse to seem as though you were once close to the danger has in recent decades joined in a demeritorious union with the ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
CULTURAL NORMS AND VALUES THAT CHARACTERIZE OUR …
... wholesome (Kusala) and their opposites as demeritorious (Paapa) and unwholesome (akusala). As the Dhammapada (Stanza No.183) says:. «Lankaweb, Jul 14»
Is There Room for God in Jainism?
Jainism believes in meritorious and demeritorious acts. Meritorious acts lead one to heavenly realms or, when perfected, to liberation (mokṣa). «Huffington Post, Aug 13»
'Sil' tells the tale of the good and the bad
After death, these demeritorious forces which are more lethal than a virus prevail unseen by the naked eye, visible only to those with insight ... «Sunday Times.lk, Sep 07»
