That's why the knowledge, as we see it, it was understood by the ancient Greeks, who were wondering about matters as fundamental as the existence, the knowledge, the truth, or the morality. Also going so far as to study in depth the knowledge from a point of view target, helping the men and women to analyze and reflect on the reality on the world through that they live.
The vitalism is a principal axis I half-close to which pivota the reaction against the positivism, the concept of vitalism applied to the philosophy, it can turn out to be ambiguous and up to contradictory. The life can be interpreted in purely biological sense or from a conception spiritualist, even metallic, cosmic, but nevertheless, there usually reserves the name of vitalism for those philosophical system, which they consider to be the life as essential and radical reality, in where some of his representatives more out-standing Nietzsche.
In this approach of the thought we meet the following thing, the life is a natural dimension, where it includes the obedience and respect towards the natural laws, in such a practical way with the target to obtain a major vitality, which he benefits to the human being in his existence, in such a way that the logical reasoning, where there are established the principal differences between the theory and the putting in practice of the same one, as another fragment of the knowledge that a defender of the vitality supposes.
A few of challenging position of this current it is at scientific level the vital phenomena they could be explained in material terms; the point of view mecanicista domineering was suggesting that we can understand to the alive beings, from the comprehension of the phenomena physicist - chemist and that the life Friedrich Nietzsche does not represent a level of reality qualitatively, differently from the inorganic reality, that's why, his philosophical vision on this one answered that he finds it very deep in yes same, he learns with his proper entrails his neighbor, it bases it on a dynamics of seeing the life in the biological and biographical and historical sense, where the reasoning links in his social or historical dimension. It are where I say the position of the vitalism the life has the value in yes same, under a concept of tackled in his biological, instinctive, irrational dimension inside his own one the theory of the knowledge.