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History of Materialism and Critique of Its Present Importance

1866 · by Friedrich Albert Lange

History of materialism from antiquity to the nineteenth century combined with a critique: materialism is a legitimate method of natural science but not a worldview, and the physiology of the senses confirms Kant’s thesis that we know appearances; Nietzsche read it, and Natorp credited it with leading him to philosophy.

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