Rudolph Hermann Lotze · 1842
Leben. Lebenskraft
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Q07LIFE
Does living activity require a principle beyond physical and chemical processes?No. no vital force beyond physics and chemistry. Rejects a special vital force; living phenomena arise from the same kinds of forces as inorganic nature, arranged in complex ways.
In Rudolph Wagner (ed.), Handwörterbuch der Physiologie, vol. 1 · Web search: 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica on Wikisource and a Cairn.info chapter describe the article and its anti-vitalist argument. Did not open the text.