panzoism
See also: pan-zoism
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- IPA(key): /pænˈzoˈĭzˈəm/
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panzoism (uncountable)
- (rare, archaic): Belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
- 1875, James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall, p.37.
- He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?
- 1918, Edward Gleason Spaulding, The New Rationalism, p.34.
- But there [is] also panzoism, maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context.
- 2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West, p. 220.
- Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism.
- 1875, James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall, p.37.
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