necessitarianism
41Collins, Anthony — ▪ British theologian born June 21, 1676, Heston, Middlesex, Eng. died Dec. 13, 1729, London prolific and provocative English Deist and freethinker and friend of the philosopher John Locke. In Collins first noteworthy work, Essay… …
42philosophy, Western — Introduction history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present. This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …
43necessitarian — 1. noun a) necessarian b) One who maintains the doctrine of philosophical necessity, in opposition to that of freedom of the will: opposed to libertarian. (The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911). 2. adjective Of or pertaining to …
44Peirce, Charles Sanders — American pragmatism Peirce Cheryl Misak INTRODUCTION Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), one of America’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians, was a difficult and not altogether pleasant character. That, combined with what the… …
45ARMINIUS, JACOBUS — a learned Dutch theologian and founder of Arminianism, an assertion of the free will of man in the matter of salvation against the necessitarianism of Calvin (1560 1609) …
46Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah — (1021–58) Chiefly remembered as one of the greatest Sephardic poets, Ibn Gabirol was also one of the most original and resourceful of the medieval Jewish philosophers. As an inhabitant of Andalusia, he wrote in Arabic and was deeply influenced …
47fatalism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. determinism, predestination; submission, apathy, nonresistance; passivity, stoicism. See destiny. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. resignation, acceptance, predestinarianism, passivity, submission to the… …
48necessitarian — (n.) 1754, from NECESSITY (Cf. necessity) + arian. As an adjective from 1739. Related: Necessitarianism …
49necessitarian — [nəˌsɛsɪ tɛ:rɪən] (also necessarian ˌnɛsɪ sɛ:rɪən) noun & adjective Philosophy another term for determinist (see determinism). Derivatives necessitarianism noun …
50fatalism — n. Necessarianism, necessitarianism …
