{"id":92791,"date":"2022-09-29T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vitalism\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:38:58","slug":"vitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vitalism<\/h2>\n<p>(Lat. vita, life) The doctrine that phenomena of life possess a character sui generis by virtue of which they differ radically from physico-chemical phenomena. The vitalist ascribes the activities of living organisms to the operation of a &#8220;vital force&#8221; such as Driesch&#8217;s &#8220;entelechy&#8221; or Bergson&#8217;s elan vital. (See H. Driesch, Der Vttalismus als Geschichte und als Lehre (1905); The Science and Philosophy of Organism, 2 Vols. (1908); The Problem of Individuality (1914); H. Bergson, Creative Evolution.) Opposed to Vitalism is biological mechanism (see Mechanism) which asserts that living phenomena can be explained exclusively in physico-chemical terms. (See J. Loeb, The Organism as a Whole from a Physico-Chemical View-Point, 1919; The Dynamics of Living Matter, 1910. See also C. D. Broad, The Mind and Its Place in Nature, ch. II.) &#8212; L.W.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalism (Lat. vita, life) The doctrine that phenomena of life possess a character sui generis by virtue of which they differ radically from physico-chemical phenomena. The vitalist ascribes the activities of living organisms to the operation of a &#8220;vital force&#8221; such as Driesch&#8217;s &#8220;entelechy&#8221; or Bergson&#8217;s elan vital. (See H. Driesch, Der Vttalismus als Geschichte &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vitalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vitalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}