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Zwischen scylla und charybdis

Acta Biotheoretica 1 (3):203-218 (1936)

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  1. Zur kritik der ganzheitsbiologie.K. Sapper - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (2):111-118.
    Holistic biology, which during the last years has gained wide acceptance amoungst biologists and philosophers, aspires to a new point of view as regards the problem of life which transcends the opposing theories of mechanism and vitalism. The exponents of holism repudiate the purely mechanical theory, the principle of life is something more than a highly complicated physico-chemical process. At the same time, however, the characteristics of life should be traced to the principles of pure natural science, untroubled by the (...)
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  • Was ist ganzheitskausalität?A. Mittasch - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (1):73-84.
    The article discusses the concept of “holistic” causality which has superseded that of “mechanistic causality”, “mechanism”.In a sequence of events a causal nexus is mentally established, attention being directed either to the initiation, the starting, the incitation of the process or to the conservation of matter and energy in the initiated transformation: initiation causality and conservation causality .As a rule, the two kinds of causality are intimately interlinked, though they often are easily to be distinguished; for instance, catalytic causation and (...)
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  • Der Kampf um die autonomie Des lebens.Joachim Metallmann - 1939 - Acta Biotheoretica 5 (1):1-10.
    During the last thirty years, both the mechanism and the vitalism has undergone remarkable changes. While the former, persisting in the strictly mechanistic thesis, has grown independent of its ancient antiteleological attitude, the latter, overcome as the doctrine of “entelechy”, has turned out fruitful owing to its other component, i.e. to the idea of autonomy of life. To-day, then, the contention takes place between two totally different points of view, between “machinism” and “autonomism”. Both interpretations of life are equally theories, (...)
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  • Studien zur theorie der organischen formbildung.Hans Driesch - 1937 - Acta Biotheoretica 3 (1):51-80.
    The concept of embryological “exactness” is introduced; it becomes rather complicated if a called interaction of embryological parts is in question. From the point of view of the biological mechanist “exactness” is ultimately founded upon a given material structure. The experiment is the only possible way to decide, whether the mechanistic view is right or not; mere description does not suffice here. The decision is in favor of so called vitalism. The “harmonious-equipotential system” implies “exactness”. The “genes” are not the (...)
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  • Biotypology II. growth as factor of development of the individual types and of the ecological types of man.Walter Brandt - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (2):119-132.