Abstract
The most famous remark of Emilie du Chatelet that physics cannot happen without metaphysics is the marker for this essay on the transformation of metaphysics in the eighteenth century. Starting with introductory remarks on the effects that Emilie du Chatelet made in her lifetime, her central position in the French Enlightment with Voltaire, La Mettrie and Maupertuis, as well as the international respect and the especially intensive reception in Germany will be introduced to the debate, which will also document the state of research as well as selected debates of the Enlightment period concerning Newton and Leibniz. The main thesis is built on Du Chatelet’s intellectual independent thought, her early and critical Lockeianism, which consequently shows that the Marquise’s scientific universalism was already outlined before she became acquainted with Leibnizian ideas.
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