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Johann Jakob Brucker
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Johann Jakob Brucker (German: [ˈbʀʊkɐ]; Latin: Jacobus Bruckerus; 22 January 1696 – 26 November 1770) was a German historian of philosophy whose work is widely regarded as foundational to modern historiography of philosophy.
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I now send you, according to your request, a copy of the syllabus. To fill up this skeleton with arteries, with veins, with nerves, muscles, and flesh, is really beyond my time and information. Whoever could undertake it, would find great aid in Enfield’s judicious abridgment of Brucker’s History of Philosophy, in which he has reduced five or six quarto volumes, of one thousand pages each of Latin closely printed…
Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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There are also propositions in support of them and citations taken from discussions of a similar kind with which we may occupy ourselves long enough. Brucker’s method is to endow the single theorem of an ancient philosopher with all the consequences and premises which must, according to the idea of the Wolffian Metaphysics, be the premises and conclusions of that theorem, and thus easily to produce a simple, naked…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Whence it results that all his actions are governed by strict necessity. Now it used to be commonly maintained that the character of a man may be transformed by moral admonitions and remonstrances appealing to reason; but when the distinction between the intelligible and empirical character had once been drawn, it followed that the unchangeableness, the inflexible rigidity of the empirical character, which thinking…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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- University of Jena
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Part of Western esotericism.