nexus — See causal nexus … Philosophy dictionary
Nexus — A connection or link. A causal connection. A connected series. Nexus comes from the Latin nectere meaning to bind. The same Latin root gave rise to connect and annex. Nexus achieved some currency as the title of a book by Henry Miller… … Medical dictionary
nexus — noun (plural nexuses or nexus) Etymology: Latin, from nectere to bind Date: 1663 1. connection, link; also a causal link 2. a connected group or series 3. center, focus … New Collegiate Dictionary
Mulla Sadra — Ṣadr ad Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī (Persian: ملاصدرا شیرازی) Full name Ṣadr ad Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī (Persian: ملاصدرا شیرازی) Born 1571 Died 1641 Era Post Classical Islamic philosophy Region … Wikipedia
Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely … History of philosophy
Cause — • Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed Catholic… … Catholic encyclopedia
Citta — For information about the lay disciple of the Buddha, see Citta (disciple). Part of a series on Buddhism Outline · Portal … Wikipedia
Glossary of philosophical isms — This is a list of topics relating to philosophy that end in ism . compactTOC NOTOC A * Absolutism – the position that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false: none is true… … Wikipedia
Ernst Nolte — (born 11 January 1923) is a German historian and philosopher, whose primary interest is the comparative study of Nazism, Fascism and Communism. His nationalistic views of German history have often proved controversial.… … Wikipedia
Conscious automatism — (C.A.) is a position on the philosophic question that asks whether determinism, as distinguished from “free will”, can be considered the sole operant principle in human decision making. C.A. holds that we human beings, like the other animals we… … Wikipedia
