Sensibility as vital force or as property of matter in mid-eighteenth-century debates Universiteit Gent
Sensibility, in any of its myriad realms U+2013 moral, physical, aesthetic, medical U+2026 U+2013 seems to be a paramount case of a higher-level, intentional property, not a basic property. Diderot famously made the bold and attributive move of postulating that matter itself senses, or that sensibility is a general or universal property of matter, even if he at times stepped back from this claim and called it a U+201Csupposition.U+201D ...