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Way of life may refer to: Lifestyle (sociology), a term to describe the way a person lives; Modus vivendi, a Latin phrase meaning way of life or way of living;
Dharma (/ ˈ d ɑːr m ə /; Sanskrit: धर्म, pronounced ⓘ) is a key concept in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. [7] The term dharma is held as an untranslatable into English (or other European languages); it is understood to refer to behaviours which are in harmony with the "order and custom" that sustains life; "virtue", righteousness or "religious ...
The term often refers to Anglo-French relations from the 1815 end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1904 Entente Cordiale. [citation needed]On 7 January 1948, the United States, Britain and Canada, concluded an agreement known as the modus vivendi, that allowed for limited sharing of technical information on nuclear weapons which officially repealed the Quebec Agreement.
There are people who use bushido as a way of life. For example, the Japanese music artist Gackt said that his philosophical way of life is similar to bushido. [41] [124] In 2011, during interviews about his martial arts action movie Bunraku (2010) he said: Being Japanese, bushido is my roots, and is an important part of my country's culture.
Alexandre Lefebvre’s new book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, offers such a reminder. In it, Lefebvre sets out to show that liberalism can serve—and that for many people it does in fact serve ...
Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of others. [1] A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless.
In Hindu traditions, moksha is a central concept [6] and the utmost aim of human life; the other three aims are dharma (virtuous, proper, moral life), artha (material prosperity, income security, means of life), and kama (pleasure, sensuality, emotional fulfillment). [7] Together, these four concepts are called Puruṣārtha in Hinduism. [8]
The use of the word jahiliyyah in Islamic literature from later centuries therefore diverged from the way that the word was used in the Quran in three key ways: (1) It came to refer to a historical epoch instead of a way of life or a moral state of being (2) It came to be used to refer to Arabs generally instead of Muhammad's opponents (3) It ...