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Definition of Hylozoists
1. hylozoist [n] - See also: hylozoist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylozoists
Literary usage of Hylozoists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Wherefore, according to the principles of these hylozoists, there is not any need
of a God at all ; that is, of one perfect Mind or understanding Being ..."
2. A Brief History of Greek Philosophy by Benjamin Chapman Burt (1889)
"... hylozoists, or Early Ionic Natural Philosophers. Thales.—The earliest of the
Greek philosophers was Thales, born at Miletus, a city on the western ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... ice. whether Empedocles an atheist or deist, 50. n. 3. Epicurus an atheist, 103.
&c. whether the hylozoists atheists, see hylozoists. whether Strato ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"The truth of this acknowledged by the hylozoists ; that there must of ...
The pretence of the hylozoists, that all the particles of matter in every animal ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"Observed here, that the hylozoists are not condemned merely for asserting a
plastic life, distinct from the ..."
6. Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau (1922)
"Fundamentally the hylozoists and Materialists hold the same views, only that the
former call force life and the latter call life force; just as the only ..."
7. Horæ Hellenicæ: Essays and Discussion on Some Important Points of Greek by John Stuart Blackie (1874)
"... the atomists, and the metaphysical or theological philosophers. I. By the
hylozoists I understand those philosophers who found the ..."
8. The works of Ralph Cudworth: Containing The True Intellectual System of the by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1829)
"But these mechanic Theists are again counterbalanced by another sort of Atheists,
not mechanical nor fortuitous ; namely, the hylozoists, ..."
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