Panzoism vs Panvitalism - What's the difference?
panzoism | panvitalism |
(rare, archaic): Belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
* 1875 , James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall , p.37.
* 1918 , Edward Gleason Spaulding, The New Rationalism , p.34.
* 2005 , David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West , p. 220.
Belief that all things are part of a single living universe.
Belief that all things in the universe are alive.
As nouns the difference between panzoism and panvitalism
is that panzoism is (rare|archaic): belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life while panvitalism is belief that all things are part of a single living universe.panzoism
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Alternative forms
* panzooism, pan-zoismNoun
(-)- He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?
- But there [is] also panzoism , maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context.
- Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism .
