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What does hylozoism mean?

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  1. A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
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For this we must substitute a simple mechanical causality in the sense of psycho-mechanical monism or hylozoism.
In contemporary philosophical language these would be the doctrines of hylozoism and animism.
He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza.
Now it is true that in his general belief Newton himself is not free from hylozoism.
So hylozoism, ancient and modern, under whatever name you please to term it, breaks down.
Esoteric astrology has its roots in the philosophy of hylozoism, which asserts that life and matter are inseparable.

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