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Theories and philosophies of vitalism are concerned with the distinction between life and non-life in some form. Given this emphasis, vitalism always has political stakes: where the boundary between life and non-life is drawn is, as theorists of biopolitics have shown, a supremely political matter […] Historically, vitalism has been associated with conservatism and fascism in ways that are sometimes genealogically defensible, sometimes only with difficulty or not at all.
Source: wiktionary
It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include historic vitalism, life force doctrine, life principle theory, nonreductionist life theory, vital force theory.
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