Vitalism | Life Force, Naturalism Holism | Britannica Vitalism, school of scientific thought—the germ of which dates from Aristotle—that attempts (in opposition to mechanism and organicism) to explain the nature of life as resulting from a vital force peculiar to living organisms and different from all other forces found outside living things
Vitalism–A Worldview Revisited: A Critique Of Vitalism And Its . . . Vitalism is a worldview and a key philosophical root of naturopathic medicine as well as a focus of criticism among its detractors It is a concept notoriously difficult to elucidate and often is roundly debated among naturopathic physicians
Vitalism: A Philosophical Perspective on Life and Vital Forces This essay explores the meaning of vitalism, its historical context, key proponents, and its impact on the fields of biology, medicine, and philosophy Additionally, it discusses the criticisms and challenges posed to vitalism, and its legacy in contemporary scientific and philosophical discourse
Introduction: Vitalism and Its Legacies in Twentieth Century Life . . . Vitalism has spent most of the twentieth century, and part of the twenty-first, being perhaps the most misunderstood and reviled philosophy of life, with organicism being a close second (on the latter see (Martindale 2013), although some theorists seek to drive a
What Is Vitalism? | Vital Life Force Philosophy and Applications Vitalism is the belief or concept that all life forms (and in some definitions also all inanimate phenomena) are driven, ruled, or created by a mysterious, primordial “Vital Force” or “Vital Energy ”
Vitalism - mechanism. ucsd. edu In its simplest form, vitalism holds that living entities contain some fluid, or a distinctive ‘spirit’ In more sophisticated forms, the vital spirit becomes a substance infusing bodies and giving life to them; or vitalism becomes the view that there is a distinctive organization among living things
What is Vitalism? - Epoché Magazine Vitalism, as a philosophical position, is usually tied to the assumption that there is a fundamental difference between the organic and the inorganic, between the physical forces and the “life force”