Gustav Fechner e a Alma do Mundo

 Miotto, M. L. (2021). Gustav Fechner e a alma do mundo. Revista Helius, 3(2, fasc. 2), 852-906. Recuperado de /https://helius.uvanet.br/index.php/helius/article/view/208

Resumo: 

O presente trabalho pretende delinear a noção de Panpsiquismo no projeto filosófico de Gustav Theodor Fechner, especialmente a partir da análise do livro Über die Seelenfrage, de 1861. Para isso, o artigo repõe em linhas gerais a questão das relações entre seu projeto filosófico e a Psicofísica, uma vez que as interpretações clássicas sobre Fechner geralmente enxergam essas duas competências como separadas. Em segundo lugar, o artigo situa questões históricas sobre Fechner e a Psicologia (e sobre filosofia e ciência), bem como a importância da Naturphilosophie em seu projeto. Finalmente, passa-se à análise dos argumentos de Fechner em defesa do Panpsiquismo e analisam-se novamente as relações entre essa visão e a Psicofísica.

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Lorenz Oken and Naturphilosophie in Jena, Paris and London

Article by Olaf Breidbach & Michael Ghiselin

Although Lorenz Oken is a classic example of Naturphilosophie as applied to biology, his views have been imperfectly understood. He is best viewed as a follower of Schelling who consistently attempted to apply Schelling's ideas to biological data. His version of Naturphilosophie, however, was strongly influenced by older pseudoscience traditions, especially alchemy and numerology as they had been presented by Robert Fludd, whose works were current in Jena and available to him. According to those influences, parts of Oken's philosophical conception were communicable even in a non-idealistic scientific culture, for example in Paris, where Oken met Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Geoffroy however was embedded in a French intellectual tradition, and the correspondence between his views and those of Oken was only superficial. The English anatomist Richard Owen attempted to incorporate the views of Oken and Geoffroy within his own, idiosyncratic system. Although Darwin knew of Oken's ideas, it was Geoffroy who really affected his evolutionary biology, and any influence of Oken must have been attenuated to the point of triviality

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Gustav Fechner: Original edition of 'Elemente der Psychophysik' (1889)

Two books on BIUM:

FECHNER, Gustav Theodor. Elemente der Psychophysik / vol. 1 Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel, 1889.

FECHNER, Gustav Theodor. Elemente der Psychophysik / vol. 2 Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel, 1889.

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