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Vitalism
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1. “Vitalism” (Ger.
Lebensphilosophie, “philosophy of life”), a term used in several senses, designates: 1. an individual philosophy, mostly unexpressed and with indefinite general principles, in which persons or groups find their identity (Worldview); 2. a philosophy of vitalist biology, especially H. Driesch’s (1867–1941) philosophy of the organic, in which he advanced, in opposition to the mechanism of physics and the evolutionary theory of C. Darwin (1809–82), the creative totality of the organic; 3. from the 18th century onward, a pragmatic “direction to live r…
