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This chapter begins by examining electricity in relation to other electromagnetic phenomena. The discussion then focuses on exploring how electricity provides the enabling conditions of chemical process. Hegel’s account of chemistry is considered next, both to determine the fundamental forms of chemical process and to establish how chemical process differs from, but provides the necessary ingredients, for life. On this basis, the account of inorganic nature comes to the point of providing the enabling conditions for the conception and emergence of life in the universe.
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Winfield, R.D. (2017). From Electricity to Chemistry. In: Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66281-7_11
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