Hwang S I
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University.
Uisahak. 1993;2(2):99-113.
The views on the life in the early modern period (the 17th and 18th centuries) with their socio-cultural backgrounds and their meanings at that time were discussed in this paper. Those views discussed here were the dualistic, mechanistic one of Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the animistic, vitalistic one of Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734), and the monistic, mechanistic one of Julien Offray de la Mettrie (1709-1751). Author stressed that the processes of their view formation were influenced by the wide range of the various political and religious factors as well as the scientific, medical facts and opinions at that time, and that not only the contents of the views but also their historical contexts should be pursued in the study on the medical thoughts.
本文讨论了近代早期（17和18世纪）关于生命的观点及其社会文化背景和当时的意义。这里讨论的观点包括勒内·笛卡尔（1596 - 1650）的二元论、机械论观点，格奥尔格·恩斯特·施塔尔（1660 - 1734）的泛灵论、活力论观点，以及朱利安·奥弗雷·德·拉·梅特里（1709 - 1751）的一元论、机械论观点。作者强调，他们观点形成的过程受到当时广泛的各种政治和宗教因素以及科学、医学事实和观点的影响，并且在医学思想研究中不仅应探究观点的内容，还应探究其历史背景。
