energismn.

1893 F. M. Müller Theosophy v. 153 It was impossible to name and therefore to conceive the sun or the moon, or a tree or even a stone, except as doers of something... This, which has been called Energism,..accounts for Animism, Personification, Anthropomorphism, Spiritism, and several other isms.

1895 F. Thilly tr. F. Paulsen Introd. Philos. 421 This view is opposed by another theory, which does not seek the highest good in subjective feelings, but in an objective content of life, or, since life is activity, in a specific mode of life. Permit me to call this view energism [Ger. Energismus].

1925 B. R. Redman tr. A. Chevalley Mod. Eng. Novel vi. 117 The novel found itself led toward the romantic..; toward a feeling for action... But romanticism..and energism are only means of escape.

1972 Philos. East & West 22 392 The highest value and highest pleasure for mankind,..is man's self-realization, or energism, the satisfaction of his spiritual, and not merely bodily, needs.

2017 M. Textor Brentano’s Mind ix. 205 Brentano..is a Hedonic Mental Energist: the objects of enjoyment are always mental acts. I will not try to decide whether Hedonic Mental Energism is defensible.

1904 Philos. Rev. 13 437 In the physical sciences, under the leadership of such men as Professor Ostwald, the atomic theory is being superseded by the new doctrine of ‘energism’.

1931 A. Wolf in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 544 The view which identifies it [sc. the sole attribute of ultimate reality] with energy is called energism.

1970 Isis 61 386/1 His alternative to atomism was Energism, which held that all natural processes are essentially transformations of energy.

2008 C. Anastopoulos Particle or Wave ii. 99 Energism was initially conceived as an alternative to the mechanistic ideal.