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  • 101Kant’s moral and political philosophy — Don Becker Practical philosophy, for Kant, is concerned with how one ought to act. His first important work in practical philosophy, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, provides Kant’s argument for the fundamental principle of how one ought …

    History of philosophy

  • 102Acknowledgments —    Until the mid twentieth century, the nature and consequences of the series of civil conflicts fought in England in the late fifteenth century were not in doubt. These civil wars, which in the nineteenth century were termed the “Wars of the… …

    Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

  • 103crime — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. offense, wrong; misdemeanor, felony, outrage; transgression, sin, evil, wrongdoing; illegality, lawbreaking. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An outrageous act] Syn. offense, transgression, misdemeanor, felony …

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  • 104disorder — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of order Nouns 1. disorder, derangement; irregularity; misrule, anarchy, anarchism; untidiness, disunion; disquiet, discord; confusion, confusedness; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, mess, mishmash …

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  • 105Nonobservance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Nonobservance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 nonobservance nonobservance &c. 772 Sgm: N 1 evasion evasion inobservance failure omission neglect laches laxity informality GRP: N 2 …

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  • 106Illegality — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence or violation of law. < N PARAG:Illegality >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 lawlessness lawlessness Sgm: N 1 illicitness illicitness Sgm: N 1 breach of law breach of law violation of law Sgm: N 1 disobedience disobedience …

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  • 107anomy — (n.) lawlessness, 1590s, anglicized from Fr. anomie; from Gk. anomia lawlessness, noun of quality from anomos without law, lawless, from a , privative prefix, without (see AN (Cf. an ) (1)) + nomos law (see NUMISMATICS (Cf. numisma …

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  • 108lawless — [[t]lɔ͟ːləs[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n Lawless actions break the law, especially in a wild and violent way. The government recognised there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour. Derived words:… …

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  • 109δυσνομία — δυσνομίᾱ , δυσνομία lawlessness fem nom/voc/acc dual δυσνομίᾱ , δυσνομία lawlessness fem nom/voc sg (attic doric aeolic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 110ἀθεμιστία — ἀθεμιστίᾱ , ἀθεμιστία lawlessness fem nom/voc/acc dual ἀθεμιστίᾱ , ἀθεμιστία lawlessness fem nom/voc sg (attic doric aeolic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)