Identify Zoroaster

question 41

Essay

Identify Zoroaster. How were his teachings unique? Relate his beliefs to the development of Persian religion.

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Definitions:

Selves

The individual identities or personalities that constitute the self-awareness or essence of a person.

Society

A group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Behaviorism

The (philosophical) thesis that there are no mental events (or that they are of no scientific importance). What we call by mentalistic names (pains, emotions, motives) are actually patterns of behavior, misnamed and mistakenly supposed to be inner, “ghostly” occurrences.

Mental

Pertaining to the mind or to mental states, processes, and faculties.