Name of the religious doctrine promulgated by the Persian sage Manes (or Mani) in the third century and which is based on the eternal confrontation of good and evil. Tendency or attitude that interprets reality with extremes and without middle terms, qualifying everything as good or bad. In political terms, polarization.
Name of the religious doctrine promulgated by the Persian sage Manes (or Mani) in the third century and which is based on the eternal confrontation of good and evil. Tendency or attitude that interprets reality with extremes and without middle terms, qualifying everything as good or bad. In political terms, polarization.
1º_ Doctrine of the Manichaeans, religious sect that during the third century was inspired by the ideas of the self-proclaimed Persian prophet Manes about the forces of good and evil in continuous struggle. 2º_ By the previous one, person who has no middle ground in his ideology, that every situation interprets it from one extreme or from the other. See dichotomy.