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Wisdom
Wisdom is an understanding of life that joins comprehension, discernment, and conduct rather than merely accumulating knowledge.
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12,055 passages
Faith
Faith joins trust, assent, and fidelity to God or to a truth held to be revealed.
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Suffering
Suffering is an experience of pain, loss, or trial whose causes, meaning, and possible responses the texts investigate.
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Knowledge
Knowledge is true and warranted understanding whose objects, methods, and limits the texts debate.
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Death
Death becomes a test of judgement, desire, and value. The texts ask not that it be denied but that we examine what fear of it does to the present.
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Desire
Desire directs attention toward what is absent or appears good. Traditions differ in what they seek to correct, order, satisfy, or transform.
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Steadfast patience
Steadfast patience sustains right conduct through trial without confusing endurance with passivity.
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Judgment
Judgement can be the human act of discernment or divine evaluation of persons and their deeds.
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Freedom
Freedom is the capacity to act without undue constraint and also the autonomy of judgement in relation to passions or determinations.
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Almsgiving and charity
Almsgiving and charity turn possession into an obligation toward the poor and the community.
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Spirit
Spirit can mean vital breath, an inner principle, or divine presence; context must distinguish these uses.
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Fear
Fear anticipates a possible harm and can distort the present. The texts examine both its object and the judgement that gives it force.
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Mercy
Mercy answers vulnerability or fault through compassion, aid, or restraint in punishment.
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Education
Education forms perception, judgement, and habits rather than merely transmitting information.
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Poverty and wealth
Poverty and wealth raise questions about the use of goods, inequality, dependence, and responsibility toward others.
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Necessity
Necessity describes what follows from a cause or divine nature in an order excluding absolute contingency.
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Duty
Duty is the action appropriate to a situation, role, or rule, even when carrying it out is costly.
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Hope
Hope is confident expectation of a good not yet present, often sustained by a promise.
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Revelation
Revelation is the communication of divine truth through speech, event, or a recognized messenger.
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Civic duty
Civic duty connects individual conduct to the responsibilities of citizenship, public justice, and the common good.
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Moral accountability
Moral accountability holds that actions, intentions, and omissions can be subject to an ultimate judgement.
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Divine unity
Tawhid affirms God’s absolute unity and rejects assigning any partner, division, or equal to God.
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Pleasure
Pleasure is a positive experience evaluated by ethical traditions according to its nature, consequences, and place in the good life.
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Fortune
Fortune names the unstable course of events beyond our control that redistributes goods, rank, health, or success.
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Prayer
Prayer addresses praise, petition, confession, or listening to God and shapes the disposition of the one who prays.
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Dukkha
Dukkha is the unsatisfactoriness and vulnerability marking conditioned experience beyond obvious pain alone.
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Truth
Truth marks what withstands error, appearance, or falsehood and governs both knowledge and speech.
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Mode
A mode is a finite affection of substance, existing and understood through something other than itself.
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Salvation
Salvation is deliverance from sin, judgement, suffering, or death within a given religious framework.
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Ressentiment
Ressentiment names a reactive production of values: blocked hostility reverses judgments and calls evil what it cannot attain, rather than merely describing ordinary resentment.
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