hylozoism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The belief that all physical matter is alive in some sense.

   “Hylozoism... makes all Body, as such, and therefore every smallest Atom of it, to have Life Essentially belonging to it.”

2. isim Synonym of materialism, the belief that all life derives entirely from physical matter.

   “[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?”