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homocentric

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homocentric [‚häm·ə′sen·trik]
(optics)
Pertaining to rays which have the same focal point, or which are parallel. Also known as stigmatic.
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13, 20 (2003) ("The grounds may be that [human-centered] welfarism is objectionably homocentric ('speciesist'), or that although economics may be fit for decisions we make as consumers', it is unsuited for analyzing issues, such as environmental protection, that we resolve outside markets, in political arenas, as citizens.
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Of particular interest to the history of Islamic scientific tradition is Article VIII, "Ibn al-Haytham's Homocentric Epicycles in Latin Astronomical Texts of the XIVth and Vth Centuries".
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In a limited way, mainly through scientific and economic developments, a certain set of values came to be associated with Renaissance humanism; namely those of the homocentric or man-centred world where individual psychology came to be seen as part of the larger configuration of forces of creation and destruction; Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy wherein the acute and irresolvable contradictions of the political and psychological subject lead to insanity and death.
Humanities in a "postmodernist" Cyprus (1) by Wall, John / Journal of Cyprus Studies
 
 
 
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