hylozoism

• “The term hylozoism unites with the conception of the formless material of the world (ὕλη), that of an animating power to which its formations and transformations are due.”

  The Approach to Philosophy

• “There is a certain hylozoism which is only a childish, inexperienced way of looking on nature.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “But, with the second successor of Aristotle, Strato of Lampsacus, another kind of hylozoism, clearly materialistic, came into existence.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “It looks like your book is advocating an idea along the lines of hylozoism?”

  Biocosm & The Biocentric Universe

• “In discussing hylozoism and panpsychism, we're not talking about the notion that the universe as a whole is alive and conscious.”

  Boing Boing

• “He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza.”

  Obama Lit In South Carolina Proclaims His Committed Christianity

• “But this latest work takes inspiration from hylozoism, the belief that all matter has life.”

  Wired: A Beastly Building Material That Just Might Bite You

• “Kant also asserts that the very possibility of natural science proper depends on the law of inertia, since the rejection of it would be hylozoism, “the death of all natural philosophy” (4: 544).”

  Kant's Philosophy of Science

• “First, the doctrine of hylozoism asserts that mind or life perme - ates the natural world.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “At the same time, the differ - ence between living and nonliving things was less marked, because the ancients tended to assume that all matter possesses power and mobility and is quasi - alive (the assumption that the material world is alive is known as “hylozoism”).”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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