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PANPSYCHISM (Gr. 7rav, all; ,writ, soul)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 681 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANPSYCHISM (Gr. 7rav, all; ,writ, soul)  , a philosophical
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term applied to any theory of nature which recognizes the existence of a psychical element throughout the objective
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world . In such theories not only animals and
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plants but even the smallest particles of
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matter are regarded as having some rudimentary kind of sensation or " soul," which plays the same
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part in relation to their objective activities or modifications as the soul does in the case of human beings . Such theories are the
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modern scientific or semi-scientific counterparts of the
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primitive animism of savage races, and may be compared with the hylozoism of the Greek physicists . In modern times the chief exponents of panpsychist views are Thomas . Carlyle, Fechner and Paulsen: a similar idea
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lay at the root of the
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physical theories of the
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Stoics .

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