What does hylozoism mean?
Hylozoism means The belief that all physical matter is alive in some sense..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
But we can answer authoritatively that to Cleanthes and Chrysippus, if not to Zeno, there was no real difference between matter and its cause, which is always a corporeal current, and therefore matter, although the finest and subtlest matter. In fact they have reached the final result of unveiled hylozoism, from which the distinction of the active and passive principles is discerned to be a merely formal concession to Aristotle, a legacy from his dualistic doctrine.
[…] 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?
Use hylozoism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hylozoism means The belief that all physical matter is alive in some sense..
Common synonyms include panbiotism, materialism.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hylozoism... makes all Body, as such, and therefore every smallest Atom of it, to have Life Essentially belonging to it.
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