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Manichee   Listen
noun
Manichee, Manichean, Manichaean  n.  A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. "The Manichaeans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development."






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... it, and thus must comprehend, in embryo or in development, the sum of all existence. To reconcile this conclusion with the phenomenal existence of evil and imperfection, is the difficulty with which philosophy has had to struggle ever since philosophy began. The Manichean, by referring evil to an independent cause, denies the existence of an absolute first principle at all; the Leibnitzian, with his hypothesis of the best possible world, virtually sets bounds to the Divine omnipotence: the Pantheist identifies God with all actual existence, and either ...
— The Philosophy of the Conditioned • H. L. Mansel



Words linked to "Manichee" :   disciple, Manichaean



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