Term: holism
Literally meaning: “the idea of whole”
Origin: Anc Greek
ὅλος/holos(=whole, all, entire)
+ισμός/-ismos(=ism denoting “an
action”, “state”, “tendency”)
Coined/History
The noun “holism”
was coined by the South African statesman and philosopher Jan Smuts (1870-1950) in his book, Holism and
Evolytion. Smuts defined holism as “The tendency in nature to form wholes that
are greater than the sum of the pats through creative evolution”.
Source
Jan C. Smuts, 1926 Holism and Evolution MacMillan,
Compass/Viking Press 1961, reprinted Sierra Sunrise 1999 (milly edited)
ISBN1-887263-14-4
Definition
Holistic is any system which is
considered as whole and not in separate parts such as holistic health in which includes any mental
physical empotional and spiritual aspects.
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