abstract:Kenelm Digby is now best remembered for his attempt at reconciling Aristotelianism with the new philosophies of his time. In his Two Treatises of 1644, Digby argued that, while the notion of form has no place in natural philosophy, it remains indispensable in metaphysics. This division of labor has not received much attention, but we argue that it played an important role in Digby’s thought. The notion of form is central to his account of bodily identity over time, but by removing it from the domain of natural philosophy, he avoids some of the standard criticism of forms in authors like Descartes. In the final part of this paper, we turn to Digby’s friend and follower, John Sergeant. We argue that, in Sergeant, we get an answer to the question of how the atomic parts out of which a body is built up relate to its form, which had remained open in Digby.

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原子与形式之间：凯内姆·迪格比的自然哲学与形而上学

摘要：肯内姆·迪格比 (Kenelm Digby) 现在因他尝试将亚里士多德主义与他那个时代的新哲学相协调而被人们铭记。在他 1644 年的两篇论文中，迪格比认为，虽然形式的概念在自然哲学中没有地位，但它在形而上学中仍然不可或缺。这种分工并未受到太多关注，但我们认为它在迪格比的思想中发挥了重要作用。形式的概念是他随着时间的推移对身体同一性的解释的核心，但通过将其从自然哲学的领域中移除，他避免了像笛卡尔这样的作家对形式的一些标准批评。在本文的最后一部分，我们转向 Digby 的朋友和追随者 John Sergeant。我们认为，在 Sergeant 中，我们得到了关于构成身体的原子部分如何与其形式相关的问题的答案，