Mind-body parallelism - Shinshinheikoron (English spelling) parallelism

Japanese: 心身平行論 - しんしんへいこうろん（英語表記）parallelism

This position holds that the two series of mind and body, and mental and physical events, are parallel and correspond to each other, but that one does not causally affect the other. Physical events are causally related only to other physical events, and mental events are causally related only to other mental events, and there is no interaction between the two series. The term "parallelismus" has been used since the time of Fechner, but in the history of philosophy, it was the 17th century theorists of opportunity causes who first took the position of parallelism. They took a dualistic view of matter and mind, and attributed the true cause of the correspondence between matter and mind to God.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

精神と身体，心的事象と物的事象という二つの系列は相互に平行し対応するが，因果的に一方が他方に影響するのではないとする立場。物的事象はあくまで他の物的事象とのみ，心的事象は他の心的事象とのみ因果連関をなし，両系列の間には相互作用はないとみなす。〈平行論Parallelismus〉という用語はフェヒナーのころから用いられたが，哲学史上，平行論の立場をとったのはまず17世紀の機会原因論者である。彼らは物心二元論に立ち，物心対応の真の原因を神に帰した。

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