Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical WritingsCambridge University Press, 1997 - 321 Seiten Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of "sentiments" (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). They include a nuanced defense of Leibniz's theodicy and conception of freedom, and examination of the ethics of suicide, an account of the "mixed sentiments" so central to the tragic genre, an hypothesis about weakness of will, an elaboration of the main principles and types of art, and a brief tract on probability theory, aimed at rebutting Hume's skepticism. |
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... Christian Wolff , especially for a topic - the nature and variety of sentiments - often neglected by that metaphysical tradition and treated with greater sensitivity by English and French authors . " Sentiment " stands here for an ...
... Christian Wolff , especially for a topic - the nature and variety of sentiments - often neglected by that metaphysical tradition and treated with greater sensitivity by English and French authors . " Sentiment " stands here for an ...
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... Christian colleagues . Mendelssohn's contemporaries could hardly have appreciated the unique blend of linguistic ... Wolff ( to name only a few of the authors cited by Mendelssohn from the four languages mentioned ) . Through Gumperz ...
... Christian colleagues . Mendelssohn's contemporaries could hardly have appreciated the unique blend of linguistic ... Wolff ( to name only a few of the authors cited by Mendelssohn from the four languages mentioned ) . Through Gumperz ...
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... Christian August Crusius ( 1715-75 ) in Sketch of Necessary Truths of Reason ( Entwurf der notwendigen Vernunft - Wahrheiten ) ( Leipzig , 1745 ) which also contains a criticism of Wolff's attempts to model philosophy on mathematics ...
... Christian August Crusius ( 1715-75 ) in Sketch of Necessary Truths of Reason ( Entwurf der notwendigen Vernunft - Wahrheiten ) ( Leipzig , 1745 ) which also contains a criticism of Wolff's attempts to model philosophy on mathematics ...
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... Christian Wolff , Philosophia Rationalis sive Logica in Gesammelte Werke , ed . Jean Ecole ( Hildesheim and New York , Olms , 1983 ) , vol . 1.2 , Pt . I , §139 , pp . 69–71 ; Crusius , Wege zur Gewißheit und Zuverläßigkeit der ...
... Christian Wolff , Philosophia Rationalis sive Logica in Gesammelte Werke , ed . Jean Ecole ( Hildesheim and New York , Olms , 1983 ) , vol . 1.2 , Pt . I , §139 , pp . 69–71 ; Crusius , Wege zur Gewißheit und Zuverläßigkeit der ...
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... Christian Wolff , Gesammelte Schriften , ed . Jean Ecole et al . ( Hildesheim and New York , Olms , 1973 ) , Section III , vol . 5 , §1 , p . 1 : “ Philosophia est scientia qualitatum in rebus sine fide cognoscendum " ( " Philosophy is ...
... Christian Wolff , Gesammelte Schriften , ed . Jean Ecole et al . ( Hildesheim and New York , Olms , 1973 ) , Section III , vol . 5 , §1 , p . 1 : “ Philosophia est scientia qualitatum in rebus sine fide cognoscendum " ( " Philosophy is ...
Inhalt
Preface | 1 |
On sentiments | 5 |
Dialogues | 94 |
Rhapsody or additions to the Letters on sentiments | 129 |
On the main principles of the fine arts and sciences | 167 |
On the sublime and naive in the fine sciences | 190 |
On probability | 231 |
On evidence in metaphysical sciences | 249 |
On the ability to know the ability to feel and the ability to desire | 305 |
what does to enlighten mean? | 309 |
Index | 316 |
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