Christian Wolff
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Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher whose systematic and rigorous approach to metaphysics and logic significantly shaped the development of Enlightenment thought and influenced Immanuel Kant.
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|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Enlightenment thinker
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human → logician → metaphysician → philosopher → rationalist philosopher → |
| birthDate | 1679-01-24 → |
| birthPlace |
Wrocław
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surface form: "Breslau"
Holy Roman Empire → Silesia → |
| citizenship | Holy Roman Empire → |
| deathDate | 1754-04-09 → |
| deathPlace |
Halle (Saale)
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surface form: "Halle"
Prussia → |
| educatedAt | University of Jena → |
| employer |
University of Halle
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University of Marburg → |
| ethnicGroup | German → |
| familyName | Wolff → |
| fieldOfWork |
ethics
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logic → mathematics → metaphysics → natural law theory → philosophy → philosophy of religion → political philosophy → |
| givenName | Christian → |
| influenced |
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
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German academic philosophy in the 18th century → Immanuel Kant → |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → |
| knownFor |
influencing the development of Kantian philosophy
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popularizing rationalist philosophy in German universities → rigorous organization of metaphysics, logic, and ethics → systematic and deductive method in philosophy → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
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Latin → |
| movement |
German Enlightenment
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Cartesianism →
surface form: "Rationalism"
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| name | Christian Wolff → |
| notableWork |
Jus naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum
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surface form: "Jus gentium methodo scientifica pertractatum"
Jus naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum → Philosophia practica universalis → Philosophia prima sive ontologia → Philosophia rationalis sive logica → Vernünftige Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt → |
| philosophicalSchool |
Christian Wolff
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surface form: "Leibniz–Wolff school"
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| positionHeld |
professor of mathematics
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professor of philosophy → |
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subject surface form: "Émilie du Châtelet"
this entity surface form: "Leibniz–Wolff school"