Definition of Panpsichism
Pan*psy"chism (?), n. [See Pan-;
Psychic.] The theory that all nature is psychical or has a
psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a
psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#),
a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#),
n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic (#),
a.
Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the
idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism,
or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a
vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of
earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members
in the soul of the world. Encyc. Brit.
Pan*psy"chism (?), n. [See Pan-;
Psychic.] The theory that all nature is psychical or has a
psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a
psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#),
a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#),
n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic (#),
a.
Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the
idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism,
or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a
vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of
earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members
in the soul of the world. Encyc. Brit.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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