Definitionn. (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry
Last update: October 28, 2015
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A word must be given to one of Bruno's contemporary compatriots, namely Campanella, who gave poetic expression to that system of universal vitalism which Bruno developed. [Please select]
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Dr Haldane goes much further in the direction of Vitalism (discussion at British Association on the subject). [Please select]
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In this reaffirmation of vitalism there might be a future, yes, an individual future, yet it was far from the smug conception of salvation. [Please select]
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” Semon assuredly will never be able to complete his theory of “Mneme” until, guided by the experience of Jennings and Driesch, he forsakes the blind alley of mechanisticism and retraces his steps to reasonable vitalism. [Please select]
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Energetics, it is true, may obtain a definite meaning for its central conception from the measurable behavior of external bodies, and a meaning that may be quite free from vitalism or teleology. [Please select]
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