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Matter and SpiritRochester Studies in PhilosophySenior Editor: Wade L. RobisonRochester Institute of TechnologyISSN: 1529-188XThe Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in ReinterpretationEdited by Paul WoodKant’s Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White BeckEdited by Predrag CicovackiPlato’s Erotic Thought: The Tree of the UnknownAlfred GeierLeibniz on Purely ExtrinsicDenominationsDennis PlaistedRationality and Happiness: From theAncients to the Early MedievalsEdited by Jiyuan Yu and Jorge J. E. GraciaHistory of Reasonableness: A Testimonyand Authority in the Art of ThinkingRick KennedyState of Nature or Eden? Thomas Hobbesand His Contemporaries on the NaturalCondition of Human BeingsHelen ThorntonFire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal’sPensées and ProvincialesCharles NatoliDestined for Evil? The Twentieth-Century ResponsesEdited by Predrag CicovackiDavid Hume and Eighteenth-CenturyAmerica: The Reception of Hume’sPolitical Thought in America,1740–1830Mark G. SpencerNietzsche’s Anthropic Circle: Man, Science, and e J. StackReligion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment: Faith and the Reform of Learning in the Thought of Christian ThomasiusThomas AhnertMatter and Spirit: The Battle ofMetaphysics in Modern WesternPhilosophy before KantJames LawlerMatter and SpiritThe Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before KantJames LawlerUNIVERSITY OFROCHESTERPRESSCopyright ? 2006 James LawlerAll Rights as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright published 2006University of Rochester Press668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA Boydell & Brewer LimitedPO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK: 1-58046-221-9Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataLawler, James M., 1940-Matter and spirit : the battle of m