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According to Dharmashastra, strength and vigour represent essential attributes where strength denotes physical power and vigour indicates energy and courage. These qualities are integral to rituals, reflecting the sacrificer's aspirations for health and vitality.
Vigor. From purity of mind comes a deep inner drive to act according to one’s values and beliefs. Hence, saintly personalities bring immense power and vigor to the tasks they pursue.
Once constrained, vigour may suggest a resolute focus and determination rather than a blind and single-minded pursuit. The person of vigour is not easily dissuaded. In this sense, vigour conveys strength, as when one ‘overawe[s]’ or ‘resist[s] with fortitude’ (Essay, p. 28).
- Eugene Heath
This paper affirms the central role of religion in Adam Ferguson's practical thought by offering a new reading of his view on the interrelations between true religion, science, moral progress,...
- Eugene Heath
Jan 29, 2022 · At the same time when the national vigour went, perhaps one or two centuries before the Mohammedan conquest of India, this national faculty became so much exaggerated that it degraded itself, and we find some of this degradation in everything in India, in art, in music, in sciences, in everything.
Turning to Ferguson's moral theory, it is argued that energetic and moralized activity, vigour, may be less an expression of ‘civic humanism’ than of Ferguson's practical experience within the Scottish Church.
In Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Enki, also known as Ea, was the god of wisdom and intelligence.
