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Chapter 3 - The Doctrine of Temperaments, Medicine, and the Problem of Atheism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

Martin Mulsow
Translated by
H. C. Erik Midelfort
Martin Mulsow
Affiliation:
University of Erfurt
H. C. Erik Midelfort
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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“Godless physics” was not the only boogeyman to threaten Germany in the decades around 1700 because a fear of “godless” psychology developed as well. This was not just the sort of mortalism that we got to know with Bucher in Chapter 1 of this book. We also saw that in Halle a doctrine of the affects or passions arose that combined the common interests between the medical and the philosophical faculties. We need to devote more attention to this combined interest because some external observers thought it harbored a sort of implicit atheism.

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The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment , pp. 125 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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