hylozoism
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- philosophy
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- Ralph Cudworth
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- Giordano Bruno
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- Hylozoism in Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Renaissance period and early modernity
- Contemporary hylozoism
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Hylozoism is the philosophical doctrine according to which all matter is alive or animated, either in itself or as participating in the action of a superior principle, usually the world-soul (anima mundi). The theory holds that matter is unified with life or spiritual activity. The word is a 17th-century term formed from the Greek words ὕλη (hyle: "wood, matter") and ζωή (zoē: "life"), which was coined by the English Platonist philosopher Ralph Cudworth in 1678.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hylozoism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.