@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006321, author = {渡辺, 祐邦}, issue = {1}, journal = {北見工業大学研究報告}, month = {Dec}, note = {application/pdf, Many scholars consider the materialism of the eighteenth century as a result from Descartes 'mechanistic explanation of the world and Lock's sensationalism. Originally 'materialism,meant,however,an opinion which denied the existence of any independent and spiritual soul for human beings as well as for beasts. Thus La Mettrie,a typical materialist of his time,stated that the soul was a meaningless word except indicating the part of our body which thinks. This physiological concept of the soul came from the Peripatetic theory of the soul introduced by Pierre Bayle,a protestant theologian of the libertine tendency. Bayle treated in an article of his Dictionnaire historique et critique(1697)the doctrine of Dicearchus that the soul was nothing but the disposition of the body. This view on the soul soon spread widely among the Free Thinkers,and supplied,in the place of the out-moded Epicurean concept of the soul-atom,a new basis for their anti-clerical and anti-spiritualistic philosophy. This new tradition of the materialist thought is traced up to the earlist days of the eighteenth century. Of special interest in this respect,among many clandestine literatures, is Zweyer Guten Freunde vertraute Brief-Wechsel vom Wesen der Seelen (Confidential letters on the Nature of the Soul).It is a fictional correspondence by an anonymous author published in Germany and dated 1713. This paper intends to review this work and translate it into Japanese, providing also some bibliographical and philological notes.}, pages = {179--218}, title = {十八世紀のドイツ唯物論における霊魂と物質  『霊魂の本質についての往復書簡』(1713)の研究}, volume = {4}, year = {1972} }