Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of panvitalism.
And unless the universe is thought of as essentially lifeless, might there not be a regressive return to pre-scientific pan-vitalism?
2006, John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science, page 722 more examples
What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of psyche that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see theion) that is the legacy of the Milesians.
1967, Francis E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, page 169As opposed to this the essentially possible interpretation of the world-ground in the sense of a theistic (deifying) pan-vitalism breaks down at the "phenomenon of death" both for Dostoyevsky and Solovyev.
1975, Helmut Dahm, Vladimir Solovyev, Max Scheler, Attempt at a Comparative Interpretation : a Contribution to the History of Phenomenology, page 154
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