Sentences with phrase «from vitalism»

RS: They are important in distinguishing what I am saying from vitalism.

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The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

Modern expressions of reason were deformed into either an extrinsicism (positivism) or an immanentism (idealism) in which nature and history, science and morality, fact and value, bureaucracy and community, knowing and feeling, were (1) either sundered from one another in various forms of dualism, e.g., mechanism - vitalism, scientism - emotivisrn, etc., (2) or were conflated into various forms of monism, e.g., materialism, idealism, etc. (LL 66 - 79, 146 - 53, 213 - 19, 245 - 64, 285 - 94, SV 1 - 60).

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

2017 Carved, Cast, Constructed: British Sculpture 1951 — 1991, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK Vitalism III, Gallery Pangolin Chalford, UK DISOBEDIENT BODIES: J.W.ANDERSON, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, UK Century: A 100 Modern British Artists, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK Like Honey from a Weed, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK Ark, Chester Cathedral, Chester, UK