CABANIS, P.J.G.

Rapports du Physique et du Moral de L'Homme. 2 vols.

Paris, Crapart, Caille et Ravier, An X - 1802. 8vo. 2 cont. full mottled calf. Rebacked but preserving original spine. Spine gilt with title-and tomelabels in leather. A little rubbed. 2 halftitles. XLIV,484;(4),624 pp. Occasional a little brownspotted.

First edition in book form of this his main philosophical work and one of the most concise expressions of materialistic philosophy in the Enlightment. - The "Rapports" is presented as "simple physiological researches", and the first 6 were read in the sessions of the Institute de France and printed 1802. His materialistic philosophy, based on his observations as a physician, states that all psychology can be reduced to biology, that all mental processes is a function of the (biological) brain which contains only physiological processes caused by sensations. In the "Rapports" he also termed the science of man "anthropologie".

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