• Pan-vitalism

    Full definition of pan-vitalism

    Noun

    pan-vitalism

    (uncountable)
    1. Alternative spelling of panvitalism1967, F.E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, page 169:
      • What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of psyche that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see theion) that is the legacy of the Milesians.
    2. 1975: Helmut Dahm, Vladimir Solovyev and : Attempt at a Comparative Interpretation : a Contribution to the History of Phenomenology, page 154:
      • As opposed to this the essentially possible interpretation of the world-ground in the sense of a theistic (deifying) pan-vitalism breaks down at the "phenomenon of death" both for Dostoyevsky and Solovyev.
    3. 2006, John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science, page 72:
      • And unless the universe is thought of as essentially lifeless, might there not be a regressive return to pre-scientific pan-vitalism?
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