I understand why elan vital is a mysterious answer, but what makes the question mysterious? Isn’t the question “why does living matter move?” a perfectly intelligible one, and the point is simply that we can do a lot better in answering it than “elan vital”?
I understand why elan vital is a mysterious answer, but what makes the question mysterious? Isn’t the question “why does living matter move?” a perfectly intelligible one, and the point is simply that we can do a lot better in answering it than “elan vital”?