His work is primarily a critique of what he took to be the two principal forms of atheism . " i . e . " materialism and hylozoism.
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Cudworth remarks in his " Preface " that he would have ignored hylozoism had he not been aware that a new version of it would shortly be published.
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Physicist Thomas Brophy, in The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism, embraces hylozoism as the basis of a framework for re-integrating modern physical science with perennial spiritual philosophy.
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In the 19th century, Haeckel developed a materialist form of hylozoism, specially against Rudolf Virchow's and Hermann von Helmholtz's mechanical views of humans and nature.
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Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, in the sociology of science, treats non-living things as active agents and thus bears some metaphorical resemblance to hylozoism.
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In order to hold a balance even between matter and mind, Spinoza in fact combined materialistic with pantheistic hylozoism, by reducing both to the rank of mere attributes of the one infinite substance.
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Ken Wilber embraces hylozoism to explain subjective experience and provides terms describing the ladder of subjective experience experienced by entities from atoms up to Human beings in the " upper left quadrant " of his Integral philosophy chart.
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Thus : hylostatism ( universe is deterministic, thus static in a four-dimensional sense ); hylostochastism ( universe contains a fundamentally random or stochastic component ); hylozoism ( universe contains a fundamentally alive aspect ).
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Thus, his form of hylozoism reverses the usual course by maintaining that living and non-living things are, essentially, the same and by erasing the distinction between the two and stipulating that they behave by a single set of laws.
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Hylozoism in this contemporary neurobiological tradition is thus restricted to the portions of nature behaving nomically inside the minds, namely the minds'sensory reactions ( Christfried Jakob's " sensory intonations " ) whereby minds react to the stimuli coming from the hylozoic hiatus or extramental realm.
