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Anne Conway’s Exceptional Vitalism: Material Spirits and Active Matter
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2021 Anne Conway’s philosophy has been categorized as “vitalism,” “vital monism,” “spiritualism,” “monistic spiritualism,” “immaterial vitalism,” and “antimaterialism.” While there is no doubt that she is a monist and a vitalist, problems arise with the ...
Doina‐Cristina Rusu
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Moral vitalism: seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces [PDF]
, 2015 Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. We introduce a scale designed to assess the belief in moral vitalism.
Buhrmester, Michael D. +15 more
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, 2022 This encyclopedia entry introduces the history and philosophy of vitalism, the doctrine that living organisms are essentially distinct from non-living objects because they possess either a non-physical property or a distinctive organization not found ...
Ariew, André, Da Silva, Gesiel
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Canalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyond
Bergsoniana, 2022 When Whitehead famously wrote that the status of life in nature constituted the modern problem of both philosophy as well as science, he may well have had Bergson in mind. Indeed, Bergson’s Creative Evolution stands as one of the most serious engagements
Tano S. Posteraro
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Vitalismo come esigenza: Claude Bernard e l’indecisione epistemologica della tarda Modernità [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2021 Was Claude Bernard a mechanicist or a vitalist? What we intend to show first is that, with a careful choice of quotes, it is possible to prove both claims. Then is it a theoretical weakness and an epistemological indecision?
Delio Salottolo
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Humans as Animals and Things in Pre-Buddhist China
Religions, 2019 This paper examines the way thinkers in the pre-Buddhist world in China viewed the animal-human divide. It argues that the boundaries between humans and animals were porous.
Michael Nylan
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Expanded mechanism and/or structural vitalism : further thoughts on the animal economy [PDF]
, 2022 The opposition between mechanism and vitalism is an old and venerable one. It seems to be particularly active in the hands of historians of biology, particularly late nineteenth and early twentieth-century biology (Hein 1972; Allen 2005).
Wolfe, Charles, Wolfe, Charles, T.
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Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2018 Title: “But no one wants to wear clothes: Oh mother, let us always go naked!” Mollie Faustman’s Portrayal of Naked Children The Swedish modernist artist Mollie Faustman (1883–1966) depicted the child throughout her artistic practice as a painter, as a ...
Kristin Hallberg
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Vital Force – A Vitality in Modern Epoch [PDF]
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 2019 Vital force is energy or a spirit like force which animates the human body in a harmonious manner. It is dynamic in nature .It can be deranged when some external influence attacks the material body and vital force goes in diseased conditions .A homoeopathic medicine will be administered to cure the human body.
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Vitalism in Early Modern Medical and Philosophical Thought [PDF]
, 2020 Vitalism is a notoriously deceptive term. It is very often defined as the view, in biology, in early modern medicine and differently, in early modern philosophy, that living beings differ from the rest of the physical universe due to their possessing an ...
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