Its central theme was that an understanding of life can only be apprehended by life itself, and from within itself. Drawing on the critiques of epistemology offered by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, notable ideas of the movement have been seen as precursors to both Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian existential phenomenology. criticised both mechanistic and materialist approaches to science and philosophy , and as such has also been referred to as the German vitalist movement, though its relationship to biological vitalism is uncertain . Vitality in this sense is instead understood as part of a distinction between one's being () and intellect (). Note that this Klagesian use of the terms and does not translate in the same manner as typical German philosophical usage:
Its central theme was that an understanding of life can only be apprehended by life itself, and from within itself. Drawing on the critiques of epistemology offered by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, notable ideas of the movement have been seen as precursors to both Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian existential phenomenology. criticised both mechanistic and materialist approaches to science and philosophy and as such has also been referred to as the German vitalist movement, though its relationship to biological vitalism is questionable . Vitality in this sense is instead understood as part of a biocentric distinction between life-affirming and life-denying principles.
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distinction between one's being () and intellect (). Note that this Klagesian use of the terms and does not translate in the same manner as typical German philosophical usage:
biocentric distinction between life-affirming and life-denying principles.