Hylozoism

Word HYLOZOISM
Character 9
Hyphenation hy lo zo ism
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Definitions and meanings of "Hylozoism"

What do we mean by hylozoism?

The philosophical doctrine holding that all matter has life, which is a property or derivative of matter. noun

The doctrine that all matter is endowed with life. noun

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. noun

A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter. noun

A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.

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The word "hylozoism" in example sentences

The term hylozoism unites with the conception of the formless material of the world (ὕλη), that of an animating power to which its formations and transformations are due. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

There is a certain hylozoism which is only a childish, inexperienced way of looking on nature. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But, with the second successor of Aristotle, Strato of Lampsacus, another kind of hylozoism, clearly materialistic, came into existence. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It looks like your book is advocating an idea along the lines of hylozoism? ❋ Unknown (2009)

In discussing hylozoism and panpsychism, we're not talking about the notion that the universe as a whole is alive and conscious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kant also asserts that the very possibility of natural science proper depends on the law of inertia, since the rejection of it would be hylozoism, “the death of all natural philosophy” (4: 544). ❋ Watkins, Eric (2007)

But this latest work takes inspiration from hylozoism, the belief that all matter has life. ❋ Tim McKeough (2007)

First, the doctrine of hylozoism asserts that mind or life perme - ates the natural world. ❋ DAVID G. HALE (1968)

At the same time, the differ - ence between living and nonliving things was less marked, because the ancients tended to assume that all matter possesses power and mobility and is quasi - alive (the assumption that the material world is alive is known as “hylozoism”). ❋ D. M. BALME (1968)

He may also have been unconsciously influenced by traditional hylozoism, which represented nature as behaving like a living being. ❋ D. M. BALME (1968)

Now it is true that in his general belief Newton himself is not free from hylozoism. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

Although Democritus had sought to avoid the element of purposiveness in the older hylozoism by referring the motions of bodies as far as possible to the impact of other bodies, he nevertheless attributed these motions ultimately to _weight_, signifying thereby a certain _downward disposition_. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

Even naive hylozoism did not stop at granting life to nature, it also endowed nature with soul. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

From what has been said, then, it follows that it would be an error to see in hylozoism a mere doctrine of physical life; for instance, the affirmation of spontaneous generation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For, under the influence of the enthusiastic return to the study of nature, of the revival of classic literatures with their mythology full of gods and goddesses, and of the sensualism which then invaded morals, the two other forms of hylozoism, the naive and the materialistic, reappeared also, and the three were combined in different proportions by the several writers. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Pantheistic hylozoism started with the very concept of mental life. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But in reality the separation does not hold, and hylozoism has always extended its conclusions to mental life as well. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Spinoza offered a solution, which, combining materialistic with pantheistic hylozoism, held the balance even between matter and mind by reducing both to the rank of mere attributes of the one infinite substance. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Scientific hylozoism is a protest against a mechanical view of the world. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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