Philosophische Clandestina der deutschen Aufklärung Abteilung I Band 4 Philosophische Clandestina der deutschen Aufklärung Abteilung I Texte und Dokumente Band 4 Urban Gottfried Bucher ( - Urban G Bucher Leinen

The physician U. G. Bucher was a student of Friedrich Hoffmann who together with Boerhave in Leiden and Stahl in Halle was one of the three major theoreticians of medicine in the early 18th century. The 'Brief-Wechsel' (Correspondence) presumably written by Bucher is the most important contribution of German freethinking to the criticism of spiritualist rational psychology. The standpoint expressed in the 'Brief-Wechsel' is a materialism which originated from medical and philosophical sources (Hobbes among others) on the basis of which a sensualistic epistemology is outlined.