---
_id: '34705'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: n 1789, Eberhard repudiated Kant’s claim expressed in the first edition of
    his Critique of Pure Reason to have delivered a new, namely transcendental turn
    in philosophy, as he was able to retrace our cognition to the origin of phenomena
    instead of delivering a “merely logical deduction”. Eberhard holds that there
    was nothing new, but all delivered in Leibniz and Wolff; to prove his claim he
    refers to a quote from Du Châtelet, taken from a paragraph where she determines
    the right understanding as to be able “to penetrate to the origin of phenomena”.
    This paper brings Du Châtelet into discourse with Kant via this Eberhard quote.
    In its first part, it investigates the use of her quote in the Kant-Eberhard controversy.
    The second part serves to ground the quote in Du Châtelet’s epistemology. It lays
    out how to understand Du Châtelet’s claim to penetrate to the origin of phenomena.
    Du Châtelet’s claim to have renewed philosophy must be taken seriously, and it
    is helpful for rethinking the German philosophical development from the rationalists
    to Kant through including Du Châtelet’s theory of cognition.
author:
- first_name: Ruth Edith
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth Edith
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
citation:
  ama: 'Hagengruber RE. Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy.
    In: Hagengruber RE, ed. <i>Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age
    of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)</i>. Vol 10. Women in the History of Philosophy
    and Science . Springer International Publishing; 2022:57-84. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3">10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3</a>'
  apa: 'Hagengruber, R. E. (2022). Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy.
    In R. E. Hagengruber (Ed.), <i>Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the
    Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)</i> (Vol. 10, pp. 57–84). Springer International
    Publishing. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3</a>'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Hagengruber_2022, place={Cham}, series={Women in the History of
    Philosophy and Science }, title={Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of
    Philosophy}, volume={10}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3">10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3</a>},
    booktitle={Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet
    (1706-1749)}, publisher={Springer International Publishing}, author={Hagengruber,
    Ruth Edith}, editor={Hagengruber, Ruth Edith}, year={2022}, pages={57–84}, collection={Women
    in the History of Philosophy and Science } }'
  chicago: 'Hagengruber, Ruth Edith. “Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of
    Philosophy.” In <i>Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie
    Du Châtelet (1706-1749)</i>, edited by Ruth Edith Hagengruber, 10:57–84. Women
    in the History of Philosophy and Science . Cham: Springer International Publishing,
    2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3</a>.'
  ieee: 'R. E. Hagengruber, “Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy,”
    in <i>Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet
    (1706-1749)</i>, vol. 10, R. E. Hagengruber, Ed. Cham: Springer International
    Publishing, 2022, pp. 57–84.'
  mla: 'Hagengruber, Ruth Edith. “Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy.”
    <i>Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)</i>,
    edited by Ruth Edith Hagengruber, vol. 10, Springer International Publishing,
    2022, pp. 57–84, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3">10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3</a>.'
  short: 'R.E. Hagengruber, in: R.E. Hagengruber (Ed.), Époque Émilienne Philosophy
    and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), Springer International
    Publishing, Cham, 2022, pp. 57–84.'
date_created: 2022-12-21T11:35:14Z
date_updated: 2025-12-17T13:40:24Z
department:
- _id: '615'
- _id: '14'
- _id: '519'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-89921-9_3
editor:
- first_name: Ruth Edith
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth Edith
  last_name: Hagengruber
intvolume: '        10'
keyword:
- Émilie Du Châtelet
- History of Science
- Newton
- Kant
- Eberhard
- Wolff
- Leibniz
language:
- iso: eng
page: 57-84
place: Cham
publication: Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet
  (1706-1749)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783030899202'
  - '9783030899219'
  issn:
  - 2523-8760
  - 2523-8779
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
quality_controlled: '1'
series_title: 'Women in the History of Philosophy and Science '
status: public
title: 'Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '91827'
volume: 10
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '34707'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Of the many outstanding female philosophers of the European Enlightenment,
    Emilie Du Châtelet excelled as a physicist, a philosopher, and a mathematician,
    as well as a Bible critic. She was famous in her lifetime and was not completely
    forgotten thereafter. Among her admirers, correspondents and friends were the
    most acknowledged scholars of her time, including Voltaire, Clairault, Maupertuis,
    Diderot, Helvetius, La Mettrie, Buffon, Christian Wolff, Leonard Euler, and Johann
    II Bernoulli. Her philosophical work enjoyed high reputation and her opus magnum,
    the Institutions physiques, was translated into Italian and German and proved
    her to be an intellectual of European stature. Its defense of living forces and
    its implied forecast into dynamics as well as her methodological grounding of
    scientific knowledge as hypothetical, impacted philosophy and science. Reality
    must by nature escape us. What we perceive are phenomena. Du Châtelet explains
    the function of space and time to trace us back to the origin of phenomena. Her
    influence on Kant is evident. Next to her writings in physics, mathematics, philosophy,
    language, and logic, she contributed to morality and ethics. Du Châtelet left
    an opus of quite systematic breadth. This impressive publishing activity excels
    in the amount of its scientific and philosophical production to which a vast collection
    of manuscripts must be added.She argued against prejudice and idolatry in philosophy
    and science. Science is a cooperative undertaking over history and beyond nations.
    Her moral writings align with ideas of the French materialists. Du Châtelet translated
    and commented on Newton’s Principia, preparing thus the fertile soil of the generation
    of physicists to come in France.
author:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
citation:
  ama: 'Hagengruber R. Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In: <i>Encyclopedia of Early
    Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing; 2021.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>'
  apa: Hagengruber, R. (2021). Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In <i>Encyclopedia
    of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>
  bibtex: '@inbook{Hagengruber_2021, place={Cham}, title={Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>},
    booktitle={Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences}, publisher={Springer
    International Publishing}, author={Hagengruber, Ruth}, year={2021} }'
  chicago: 'Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” In <i>Encyclopedia
    of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Cham: Springer International
    Publishing, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.'
  ieee: 'R. Hagengruber, “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749),” in <i>Encyclopedia of
    Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Cham: Springer International Publishing,
    2021.'
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” <i>Encyclopedia of Early
    Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Springer International Publishing, 2021,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.
  short: 'R. Hagengruber, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences,
    Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021.'
date_created: 2022-12-21T11:54:55Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T10:06:49Z
department:
- _id: '615'
- _id: '14'
- _id: '519'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1
keyword:
- aura Bassi Luise Gottsched Immanuel Kant Dourtous de Mairan Johann II Bernoulli
  Algarotti Buffon d’Alembert La Mettrie Principle of contradiction Hypotheses Enlightenment
  Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence Living forces Dead forces
- happiness Space Imaginary beings Monads Epicurus Ethics Women philosophers Newton’s
  laws Principia Motion inertia Active force Vis viva Vis mortua Hypothetic reasoning
  Hypotheses
- a priori principles
- Experience
- Dead forces
- Living forces
- Energy Dynamics
language:
- iso: eng
place: Cham
publication: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783319207919'
  - '9783319207919'
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
status: public
title: Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)
type: book_chapter
user_id: '14931'
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '12085'
abstract:
- lang: ger
  text: 'In diesem Band werden neueste Forschungen zur Physikerin, Mathematikerin
    und Philosophin Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749) vorgestellt. Emilie Du Châtelet
    genoss in der deutschen Aufklärung eine hohe Reputation. Sie verband Leibniz Metaphysik
    mit der Physik von Newton und gelangte zu erstaunlichen Ergebnissen, die die Physik
    auf den Weg zu Einsteins Energieformel führte. Ihre Werke wurden sofort ins Deutsche
    übersetzt, Kant nimmt in seiner ersten Dissertation von 1747 auf sie Bezug. Die
    Sammlung stellt Texte vor, die den Einfluss der deutschen Aufklärung auf Du Châtelets
    und Du Châtelets Einfluss auf die deutsche Philosophie diskutieren. Die großen
    Namen der Epoche stehen hier zur Debatte, Leibniz, Wolff, Boskovic, Euler, Friedrich
    II, Voltaire, La Mettrie und viele weitere Größen der Aufklärung werden in ihrem
    Zusammenhang mit Du Châtelet vorgestellt. '
citation:
  ama: Hagengruber R, Hecht H, eds. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung</i>.
    Vol 3. Springer; 2019.
  apa: Hagengruber, R., &#38; Hecht, H. (Eds.). (2019). <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und
    die deutsche Aufklärung</i> (Vol. 3). Springer.
  bibtex: '@book{Hagengruber_Hecht_2019, place={Wiesbaden}, series={ Philosophie History
    of Science Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists.},
    title={Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung}, volume={3}, publisher={Springer},
    year={2019}, collection={ Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie
    und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists.} }'
  chicago: 'Hagengruber, Ruth, and Hartmut Hecht, eds. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die
    deutsche Aufklärung</i>. Vol. 3.  Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie
    und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019.'
  ieee: 'R. Hagengruber and H. Hecht, Eds., <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche
    Aufklärung</i>, vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019.'
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth, and Hartmut Hecht, editors. <i>Emilie Du Châtelet und die
    deutsche Aufklärung</i>. Springer, 2019.
  short: R. Hagengruber, H. Hecht, eds., Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung,
    Springer, Wiesbaden, 2019.
date_created: 2019-07-19T09:56:16Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T09:46:30Z
department:
- _id: '519'
editor:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
- first_name: Hartmut
  full_name: Hecht, Hartmut
  last_name: Hecht
keyword:
- Emilie Du Châtelet
- Immanuel Kant
- Leibniz
- Aufklärung
- Christian Wolff
- Luise Gottsched
language:
- iso: ger
page: '420'
place: Wiesbaden
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - ISBN 978-3-658-14022-9
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
series_title: ' Philosophie History of Science Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft.
  Women Philosophers and Scientists.'
status: public
title: Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung
type: book_editor
user_id: '14931'
volume: '3 '
year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '34776'
author:
- first_name: Johannes
  full_name: Süßmann, Johannes
  id: '16220'
  last_name: Süßmann
  orcid: 0000-0001-5716-0863
citation:
  ama: 'Süßmann J. [Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer Kurfürsten des
    Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M. 2002.
    <i>sehepunkte</i>. 2004;4(2).'
  apa: 'Süßmann, J. (2004). [Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer Kurfürsten
    des Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M.
    2002. In <i>sehepunkte</i> (Vol. 4, Issue 2).'
  bibtex: '@article{Süßmann_2004, title={[Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die
    Mainzer Kurfürsten des Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren.
    Bern, Frankfurt/M. 2002}, volume={4}, number={2}, journal={sehepunkte}, author={Süßmann,
    Johannes}, year={2004} }'
  chicago: 'Süßmann, Johannes. “[Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer
    Kurfürsten des Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M.
    2002.” <i>sehepunkte</i>, 2004.'
  ieee: 'J. Süßmann, “[Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer Kurfürsten
    des Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M.
    2002,” <i>sehepunkte</i>, vol. 4, no. 2. 2004.'
  mla: 'Süßmann, Johannes. “[Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer Kurfürsten
    des Hauses Schönborn als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M.
    2002.” <i>sehepunkte</i>, vol. 4, no. 2, 2004.'
  short: J. Süßmann, sehepunkte 4 (2004).
date_created: 2022-12-21T17:27:58Z
date_updated: 2022-12-28T21:32:00Z
department:
- _id: '446'
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         4'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Schönborn
- Johann Philipp von Schönborn
- Lothar Franz von Schönborn
- Leibniz
- Kurmainz
- Gesetzgebung
- Kulturpatronage
language:
- iso: ger
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2004/02/1994.html
oa: '1'
publication: sehepunkte
publication_status: published
status: public
title: '[Rez. v.] Peter Claus Hartmann (Hg.): Die Mainzer Kurfürsten des Hauses Schönborn
  als Reichserzkanzler und Landesherren. Bern, Frankfurt/M. 2002'
type: review
user_id: '16220'
volume: 4
year: '2004'
...