Philosopher
Christian Wolff (philosopher)
Overview
Christian Wolff (; German: [vɔlf]; less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian von Wolff in 1745; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which some deem the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany.
Wolff wrote in German as his primary language of scholarly instruction and research, although he did translate his works into Latin for his transnational European audience. A founding father of, among other fields, economics and public administration as academic disciplines, he concentrated especially in these fields, giving advice on practical matters to people in government, and stressing the professional nature of university education.
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Philosophers who discussed Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Giambattista Vico
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Confucius
- Arnold Geulincx
- Salomon Maimon
- Georg Friedrich Meier
- Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
- Martin Knutzen
- Johannes Clauberg
- Pasquale Galluppi
- Israel Gottlieb Canz
Ideas Christian Wolff (philosopher) discusses
- Jesus
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Immanuel Kant
- Academy
- Abingdon-on-Thames
- Law of noncontradiction
- Latin
- Pietism
- Metaphysics
- Moses
- Monadology
- Drama
- Natural theology
- Natural law
- Ontology
- Psychology
- Lutheranism
- Physiology
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- Protestantism
- Søren Kierkegaard
Place in the tradition
Part of Cosmology.
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