The machine and the body in the transcendental cosmo-logy of Chr. Wolff and Chr. A. Crusius
The 18th century philosophy actively used the notion of machine in its extended meaning, especially when describing both the world as a whole and its constituent bodies. Consequently, the initial meaning of that notion underwent peculiar changes: not only an artificial mechanism but also a natural organic ...
The concept of body and the problem of demarcation in new European metaphysics: from Descartes to Kant
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matter, physical body (Körper), human body (Leib), machine, soul, dualism, anthropology, cartesianism, occasionalism, influxus physicus theory, doctrine of preestablished harmony, wolffianism, anti-wolffianism, Kant’s pre-critical period
Kharitonova A. M.
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10.5922/0207-6918-2012-2-2
