What Is Vitalism?

Vitalism is a funny term. I got a letter from a historian saying, you know, you're misusing this word. It means slightly different things to e different people. And i what i essentially mean by vitalism is i place it in contrast to what one of my favorite writers, albert j. Knock calld, economism. So economism is the implicit belief in the nineteenth and twentieth century that the purpose of a human life is pleasure. In traditional kind of utilitarian economic theory, for example, work is considered disutility. Nobody wants to do work. It as negative utility. Therefore, if you could get robots eliminate work, then you could live without working