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52 matches to Good Emperors
Good Emperors. 96-169. Romans, Nerva to Verus.
Ahurza Mazda. Zoroastrian spirit of good.
Aristippus. 435-366BC. Cyrenaic philosopher: Man’s goal should be pleasure. Good=pleasant.
Armed Neutrality at Sea. 1780-1801. Agreement that neutral flag at sea protects all but military goods.
Bhadracarya-pranidhana. Buddhist vows of good conduct.
Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.
Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. US novelist of Chinese life. Good Earth 1931.
Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.
Chu Hsi. 1130-1200. Chinese Neo-Confucian. Four Books 1189. Individual goodness can be brought out by study of the classics.
Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism.
Diaz, Bartolomeu. c1450-1500. Portuguese. First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/8.
Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.
Ethics. Study of what is good human conduct.
Flying Dutchman. Legendary ghost ship of Cape of Good Hope.
Gama, Vasco da. c1460-1524. Portuguese explorer who rounded Cape of Good Hope 1488. Captured Calicot, India, 1503.
Golden Fleece, Order of. 1430. Knighthood founded by Philip the Good.
Good Parliament. 1376. Reforms against Edward III. Nullified 1377.
Goodman, Benny. 1909-86. US clarinetist/ bandleader. “King of Swing”.
Goodyear, Charles. 1800-60. US. Vulcanized rubber, 1839.
Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).
Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.
Hobbes, Thomas. 1588-1679. English Materialist Determinist philosopher. Nominalist. Royalist. Good is that which brings pleasure; evil, pain. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Elements of Law 1640. Leviathan 1651.
Horus. Egyptian deity of sunlight and goodness. Falcon.
Hywell the Good. -950. Welsh king 910-. Law code.
Inflation. General rise of prices of goods and services.