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vitalism [′vīd·əl‚iz·əm] (biology) The theory that the activities of a living organism are under the guidance of an agency which has none of the attributes of matter or energy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Vitalism held that life arises from and involves special "life forces" that are apart from the purely physical/chemical realm. To argue otherwise seems to endorse an idea that the church's moral teaching has traditionally eschewed: vitalism, the preservation of life at any cost regardless of its condition. Fenstemaker represents something else as well: a kind of heroic vitalism rarely found in a culture sapped by the very sort of cheap moralizing that turns up in your average American political novel. |
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