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Examples of vitalist
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This is very like the vitalist vision of reality espoused during the Enlightenment in Europe.
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Vitalist Theatre presents Calderon de la Barca's drama about a prince's struggle to know himself.
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Vitalist and romantic, his zoology mostly follows Lorenz Oken.
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Examples of vitalist philosophy are found in many religions.
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However, anti-vitalist experimental physiologists and embryologists, especially in Europe, were increasingly influential.
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Homeopathy is a vitalist philosophy that interprets diseases and sickness as caused by disturbances in a hypothetical vital force or life force.
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Nevertheless, various quasi-vitalist concepts were still employed by many scientists to explain many matters of human life, development and mind.
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Perhaps more than any other area of science, psychology has been rich in vitalist concepts, particularly through the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
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Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist Hermann von Helmholtz, and initially struggled to express his concepts in strictly neurological terms.
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- One who believes in vitalism
- (vitalism) (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry
- Vitalism, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is
- Someone who believes in vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors; Of or espousing vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors
- (vitalistic) Of or pertaining to vitalism
- (VITALISM) Evolution is the product of an ever-present and inherent urge (entelechy) in all things.
- (Vitalism) The theory that the phenomena of organic life cannot be explained by the properties of physical matter alone, and that consequently they must be due to some nonphysical vital principle. Attempts to define such a principle have been vague and various. ...
- (Vitalism) the doctrine that life is the basic reality, of which everything else is a form or manifestation
- (vitalism) the idea that life processes have a component entirely separate from the constraints of the laws of natural science.
