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Büchner is not always clear in his theory of the relation between matter and force. At one time he refuses to explain it, but generally he assumes that all natural and spiritual forces are indwelling in matter. Just as a
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would no longer apply or at least be replaced with purely intellectual struggles, and war would end. To achieve this, Büchner advocated government social programs which would aid greater equality, including the
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Ludwig Büchner was born in the family of Ernst Karl Büchner, a senior medical councilor and court doctor in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Ludwig was the younger brother of
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complex of force-bearing substance in an animal organism produces a total sum of certain effects, which, when bound together in a unity, are called by us
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in 1869 about what he felt were Darwinism's implications. He believed that this included humanity moving into a kinder state of being, where a primitive
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Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System)
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Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914
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Modern Christian apologists consider Büchner the father of atheistic evangelism in Germany, a counterpart to
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of this work, which contemporaries often lumped together with the publications of other 'materialists' like
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was imbued with a fanatical enthusiasm for humanity. Büchner sought to demonstrate the indestructibility of
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Büchner was much less concerned to establish a scientific metaphysics than to protest against the romantic
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Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945 Nature as Model and Nature as Threat
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In estimating Büchner's philosophy it must be remembered that he was primarily a
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Lerner, Franz (1960). "Die ersten Mitglieder des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts".
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He continued his philosophical work in defense of materialism, and published
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Tatsachen und Theorien aus dem naturwissenschaftlichen Leben der Gegenwart
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Der Fortschritt in Natur und Geschichte im Lichte der Darwinschen Theorie
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Members of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century
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Ludwig Büchner's materialism was the founding ground for the
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Fremdes und Eigenes aus dem geistligen Leben der Gegenwart
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Strangers and Selves in the Spiritual Life of the Present
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within a decade of its first issuance, writing the book
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Kraft und Stoff: Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien
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Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany
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Facts and Theories in the Scientific Life of Present
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Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
German Confederation
German Empire
German
University of Giessen
University of Strasbourg
University of Würzburg
University of Vienna
Georg Büchner
Luise Büchner
19th-century philosophy
Western philosophy
School
German materialism
University of Tübingen
Thesis
Philosophy of science
Nature is purely physical
philosopher
physiologist
physician
scientific materialism
Darmstadt
physics
chemistry
botany
mineralogy
philosophy

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