Maine de Biran and the Dynamism of Habit. The History of French Vitalism

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Maine de Biran and the Dynamism of Habit. The History of French Vitalism

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Philosophy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

I would like to preface this paper with a quote by Xavier Bichat (1771-1802) that is in a direct relation to Biran’s philosophy. In On Life & Death, Bichat writes: “[L]ife consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted. The measure, then, of life, is the difference which exists between the

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