Band 4: Urban Gottfried Bucher (1679–1724)

The physician U. G. Bucher was a student of Friedrich Hoffmann, who together with Boerhave in Leiden and Stahl in Halle was one of the three major theoreticians of medicine in the early 18th century. The ›Brief-Wechsel‹ (Correspondence), presumably written by Bucher, is the most important contribution of German freethinking to the criticism of spiritualist rational psychology. The standpoint expressed in the ›Brief-Wechsel‹ is a materialism which originated from medical and philosophical sources (Hobbes among others) on the basis of which a sensualistic epistemology is outlined.

Contents:

• Urban Gottfried Bucher: Zweyer Guten Freunde vertrauter Brieff-Wechsel vom Wesen der Seelen (1723)

Dokumente:

• Johann Gottlob Dietrich / Gottfried Klemm: Dissertatio physica de anima brutorum (1704)

• Friedrich Hoffmann / Urban Gottfried Bucher: Leges naturae in corporum productione et conservatione (1707)

• Johann Heinrich Heucher / Samuel Christoph Ursinus: Exercitatio physico-mathematica de mechanicis non mechanicis (1708)

• Johann Andreas Planer / Matthäus Eliser Wende: Nova de animae humanae propagatione sententia (1712)

• Valentin Ernst Löscher: Unschuldige Nachrichten von alten und neuen theologischen Sachen, Büchern, Uhrkunden, Controversien, Anmerckungen und Vorschlägen (1713)

• Johann Franz Budde: De Arabicorum Haeresi commentatio (1713)

• Polycarp Müller: Mens substantia, a corpore essentialiter diversa (1714)

• August Friedrich Cämmerer: Untersuchung von der Seelen [...] (1714)

• Johann Hermann von Elswich: Recentiores de anima controversiae (1717)

• Konkordanz der Ausgaben von 1713 und 1723 des Briefwechsels