courage
Courage may serve as an example for the difference between behavior trait and character trait. Courage as behavior trait might thus be described: a behavior of a person who in [...]
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Category: M – N
human species; man; human being
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution; that he is part of nature and yet transcends it, being endowed with reason and self-awareness. ― (1962a: Beyond the [...]
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masochism
The phenomenon of masochism shows us that men can be drawn to the experiencing of suffering or submission. There is no doubt that suffering, submission, or suicide is the antithesis [...]
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martyr
The word „martyr” means „witness” in Greek and Latin, one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of refusing to desert one’s belief, or one of its tenets. He is [...]
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power
The word power has a twofold meaning. One is the possession of power over somebody, the ability to dominate him; the other meaning is the possession of power to do [...]
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