vitalism

How To Use vitalism In A Sentence

• Since the demise of vitalism, we do not think of life per se as something distinct from living things.
• Furthermore, there is a noticeable reaction towards the scholastic position in recent biology, in which a growing school of neovitalism is making itself felt. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• It is often rooted in mysticism and a metaphysical belief in vitalism (Barrett).
• This insistence on empirical proof shows a profound misunderstanding of the essence of vitalism.
• Medallions in relief sunburst patterns alternating with exotic flowers recall the shields adorning entryways in Antiquity at the same time that they embody the vitalism of Martin's occultist obsessions.
• Energy medicines are based upon variants of the metaphysical theory known as vitalism, a theory that has been dead in the West for over a century.
• But for long after that the elaborate organization of living things remained daunting and mysterious, and left plenty of room for vitalism as a respectable concept.
• A partial list of what was then fashionable would necessarily include: Darwinism, idealism, irrationalism, vitalism, Marxism, socialism and positivism.
• Strangely, the pope's statement seems at odds with his own earlier writing, and comes curiously close to endorsing the notion of vitalism, a philosophy that he has firmly rejected in the past.
• Just in what direction the new biology will grow out is hard to see at present, so many divergent beginnings have been made -- the materialistic vitalism of Driesch, the profound intuitionalism of Bergson, the psychological biology of Delpino, Francé, Pauly, A. W.gner and W. Mackenzie. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology