Philosophia prima sive ontologia

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Philosophia prima sive ontologia is Christian Wolff’s foundational treatise on metaphysics, in which he systematically develops a rationalist account of being and its most general principles.

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instanceOf metaphysics book
philosophical work
treatise
aimsTo develop a rationalist account of being
establish the most general principles of all things
associatedWith German Enlightenment
author Christian Wolff
concerns logical and ontological principles of thought and reality
the most general determinations of being
describedAs foundational treatise on metaphysics
systematic account of being
fieldOfStudy metaphysics
ontology
philosophy
focusesOn concept of being
most general principles of reality
principle of non-contradiction
principle of sufficient reason
rational structure of being
genre scholastic-style systematic treatise
hasPart general ontology
principles of contradiction and sufficient reason
theory of being
historicalPeriod Early modern philosophy
influenced 18th-century German metaphysics
Immanuel Kant
Leibnizian rationalism
surface form: Leibniz–Wolffian school
influencedBy Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
keyConcept ens in genere (being in general)
essence and existence distinction
ground and consequence (fundamentum et consequens)
necessary and contingent being
perfection and reality (realitas)
language Latin
mainSubject metaphysics
ontology
method axiomatic-deductive method
rationalist method
originalTitle Philosophia prima sive ontologia self-link
partOf Christian Wolff’s metaphysical system
philosophicalDiscipline general metaphysics
philosophicalSchool Leibnizian rationalism
surface form: Leibniz–Wolffian philosophy
philosophicalTradition rationalism
positionInSystem first part of Wolff’s metaphysics
relatedWork Cosmologia generalis
Psychologia empirica
Psychologia rationalis
Theologia naturalis
titleLanguage Latin

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Christian Wolff notableWork Philosophia prima sive ontologia
Philosophia prima sive ontologia originalTitle Philosophia prima sive ontologia self-link