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Jul 3, 2006 · Christian Wolff (1679–1754), philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, is widely and rightly regarded as the most important and influential German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant.
Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf, [5] German: [vɔlf]; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian Freiherr 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.
Jul 3, 2006 · Christian Wolff (1679-1754), also known as Christian von Wolfius, was a Rationalist philosopher of the German Enlightenment. His corpus includes over 26 titles, spanning more than 42 quarto volumes, with contributions primarily in the areas of mathematics and philosophy.
Jul 9, 2019 · Christian Wolff (Breslau 1679–Halle 1754) was the leading figure of German academic philosophy in the first half of the eighteenth century and one of the most systematic thinkers of all times.
Mar 2, 2024 · Christian Wolff, a member of the New York School of modernist composers, at home in Hanover, N.H. He only turned to composing full-time when he retired in 1999 after decades of teaching...
Jan 10, 2020 · Christian Wolff (1679–1754) is a rationalist philosopher of the German Enlightenment known as an encyclopaedic “systematizer of all areas of knowledge” (Haakonssen 2012). He developed a comprehensive, and thoroughly rationalist, philosophical system.
Jun 15, 2024 · The principal follower and interpreter of Leibniz. Wolff was primarily a mathematician, but renowned as a systematic philosopher, supposing that all the necessary tenets of metaphysics are derivable from the principle of sufficient reason and the principle of identity (Leibniz's law).
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This essay narrates chronologically the life of Christian Wolff (1679-1754), arguably the most eminent German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant, and an important figure in the development of thought about the state and its tasks as well as about the national economy.
Christian Wolff was a rationalist polymath and an influential leader of the early German Enlightenment. He was born in Breslau into an impoverished family of leather workers.
Before and Beyond Leibniz: Tschirnhaus and Wolff on Experience and Method. Corey W. Dyck - manuscript. In this chapter, I consider the largely overlooked influence of E. W. von Tschirnhaus' treatise on method, the Medicina mentis, on Wolff's early philosophical project (in both its conception and execution).
