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What (who) is hylozoism - definition

PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY
Panvitalism; Hylozoists; Hylozoist; Hylozoistic
  • ''Sphera volgare'', featuring the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]], the [[winds]] and the [[stars]] as living. Woodcut illustration from an edition of ''[[De sphaera mundi]]'', [[Venice]], 1537.

Hylozoism         
·noun The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
hylozoism         
[?h??l?(?)'z???z(?)m]
¦ noun Philosophy the doctrine that all matter has life.
Origin
C17: from hylo- + Gk zoe 'life'.
Hylozoism         
Hylozoism is the philosophical point of view that matter is in some sense alive. The concept dates back at least as far as the Milesian school of pre-Socratic philosophers.

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Hylozoism

Hylozoism is the philosophical doctrine according to which all matter is alive or animated, either in itself or as participating in the action of a superior principle, usually the world-soul (anima mundi). The theory holds that matter is unified with life or spiritual activity. The word is a 17th-century term formed from the Greek words ὕλη (hyle: "wood, matter") and ζωή (zoē: "life"), which was coined by the English Platonist philosopher Ralph Cudworth in 1678.