@article{ART001471435},
author={Se-Yong Jang},
title={The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility},
journal={Korean Review of French History},
issn={1229-702X},
year={2010},
number={23},
pages={37-68}
TY - JOUR
AU - Se-Yong Jang
TI - The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility
JO - Korean Review of French History
PY - 2010
VL - null
IS - 23
PB - KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
SP - 37
EP - 68
SN - 1229-702X
AB - In the Enlightenment, many thinkers like La Mettrie, Helvétius, D’Holbach, G. L. Leclerc Buffon and Maupertuis were material/naturalists labeled as mechanical or biological. Diderot was also materialist affected from D’Holbach and La Mettrie etc. But his tendency was a kind of biological materialism based on the molecular biological understanding of nature and its dynamic unity.
In the intellectual development, Diderot started with naturalism, and also related it to skepticism. From this, Diderot reached atheistical materialism, and this functioned as key bases for his biological materialism. In this perspective, Diderot represented the dynamic unity-totality of nature composed by molculars as atoms. We may commonly think materialism is a monistic regulation on the things of nature and society, but Diderot’s vision has leaded to the open-minded pluralism for the understanding of the world.
My purpose in this survey is to clarify the process of making materialism of Diderot and its common feature and difference. The materialism of Diderot was a theoretical and strategical instrument to achieve an ethical, moral supposition that realizes 1) to advocate human’s passion, 2) to attempt liberation from traditional beliefs and shackles of authority, 3) to deny the abstract system for the observation of fact, 4) to illuminate heterological culture and religion, 5) and finally to achieve human equality in the abstract.
In his materialism, Diderot 1) focused on the evolution of man who can produce prominent acts, memory and thought with organic and cognitional function composed by ‘molecule’ implicit heterologically, 2) he elevated the sensibility as an essential element to understand and construct nature and society. The sensibility universally embedded in nature can be associated regularity, impulse, and eternal vitality with whole things in the world. And this sensibility can also be operated on all human beings, society and state, so we can say there is neither good nor evil in the dogmatical dimension. There can only be the universal morality which can furnish solidarity of all components of community with happiness based on sensitive materialism and establish socio-political principles of the equality.
KW - 무신론(atheism);기계적 유물론(mechanical materialism);생물학적 유물론(biological materialism);혼종(hybrid);분자(molcular);감성(sensibility)
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Se-Yong Jang. (2010). The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility. Korean Review of French History, 23, 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. 2010, "The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility", Korean Review of French History, no.23, pp.37-68.
Se-Yong Jang "The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility" Korean Review of French History 23 pp.37-68 (2010) : 37.
Se-Yong Jang. The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility. 2010; 23 : 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. "The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility" Korean Review of French History no.23(2010) : 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility. Korean Review of French History, 23, 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility. Korean Review of French History. 2010; 23 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility. 2010; 23 : 37-68.
Se-Yong Jang. "The Biological Materialism of Denis Diderot: Some reflections on the concepts of hybrid, molcular and sensibility" Korean Review of French History no.23(2010) : 37-68.
