Educational instinct
Educational instinct , Latin nisus formativus , designates a life force assumed in living beings to regulate the processes of "generation, nutrition and reproduction". It is a three-stage biological concept of self-organization , which was coined as a term by the natural scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1780 and explained in more detail in About the Educational Instinct and the Procreation Business 1781. The driving force assumed by Blumenbach determines the biological cycle of conception, nutrition and reproduction.
Writings by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach on the educational instinct
- De Nisu Formativo - About the educational instinct: All writings in their genesis and on the topic (original editions and translations) are available at: http://www.blumenbach-online.de/fileadmin/wikiuser/Daten_Digitalisierung/Bibliographie/Bibliographie.php#InhVI3 as PDF and HTML (online) available.
- About the educational instinct (Nisus formativus) and its influence on generation and reproduction . In: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Georg Forster (Hrsg.): Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaft und Litteratur . Volume 1, Number 5, 1780, pp. 247-266, (online) .
- About the educational instinct and the procreation business . 1st edition, Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1781, (online) .
literature
- Ulrike Enke: drive to educate. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 178.