How to pronounce “vitalis” in English

So vitalism is another philosophy with very ancient roots, and it states that there is something special about living matter.

But I'll come back to vitalism later.

But like a lot of other vitalists, he was a little bit cagey about exactly what that force was.

And then there are the vitalists who have believed that there is some additional non-material essence

And to the extent it contrasts materialism and vitalism, scientism and religion, body and soul, it is the oldest subject in the world.

And on the other side of the debate stirred vitalism, which says that there's something special about living matter.

Now, vitalism had been around for a long time, but it also became a little bit more visible in the 17th and 18th centuries as a direct response

a function of matter, vitalists like the German scientist Blumenbach disagreed.

Individualism began with the humanism of the late Renaissance, vitalism with the quests of the Baroque era

You have to inject something else on top of the particles, some vital life force, vitalism.

He was talking about one of the key ideological clashes of the Enlightenment, and that was a standoff between materialism and vitalism.

But on the other side, people were arguing in favor-- sorry, ignore that-- of a vitalism, which I mentioned earlier.

Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, were vitalists.