The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitalistic \Vi`tal*is"tic\, a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to vitalism
Usage examples of "vitalistic".
It depends upon the vitalistic existence of men which is largely governed by his rational mind helped by scientific inventions.
I believe only that we should make use of it as a working program, because the history of biological research proves it to have been a more effective and fruitful means of advancing knowledge than the vitalistic hypothesis.
I will offer two illustrative cases, one of which may indicate the fruitfulness of the mechanistic conception in the analysis of complex and apparently mysterious phenomena, the other the nature of the difficulties that have in recent years led to attempts to re-establish the vitalistic view.
Views of this kind represent a return, in some measure, to earlier vitalistic conceptions, but differ from the latter in that they are an outcome of definite and exact experimental work.
This is almost certainly the dialectic that I saw during my March 1974 revelations, and I am willing to admit that it is certainly possible that the blind, dark counterplayer against which the vitalistic good element worked could be "God's own earlier stages," as Driesch viewed it.