
Klages, Reich, and Peat: Towards a Bioenergetic Philosophy
Hermitix
The Non-Reductive Holistic Attitude to the World
holism is the observation that although natural objects can be resolved into their parts, the parts are to some extent shaped by their participation in the whole object. It's a non-dogmatic attitude towards the world where you don't segregate and segment all these parts, and you recognise individual uniqueness rather than averages. Rather than ascribing things to genes, which I'll get to, he says, consciousness, perception, sensation, pleasure, and intention have often been emitted from the world described by reductionists. He talks about Einstein observing that an object fields amounted to an extension of its material substance - so it's this non-reductive holistic attitude toward human beings.