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The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great - Philosophy and science (Paperback)
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The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great - Philosophy and science (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:11
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This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of
philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the
mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new
instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a
historiography of philosophy at this important Enlightenment
institution. The collection ranges from discussions of the roles of
philosophy and natural philosophy in the formation of the
reinvigorated Academy in the mid-1740s, to conceptions of the
correct philosophical methodology to be deployed by the Academy. It
provides the first ever study of the nature and arrangement of the
new classes of the Academy, and a fresh appraisal of the Academy's
methodological eclecticism. One recurring theme is the status of
metaphysics: there are studies of both special metaphysics,
including the study of the soul; general metaphysics, that is, the
study of being in general; and foundational metaphysical principles
and concepts, such as Maupertuis's Principle of least action,
Euler's concept of space and Lambert's notion of an experimental
metaphysics. The collection also takes the study of the Academy in
new directions through focused studies of important figures whose
writings deserve to be better understood, such as Jean Bernard
Merian, Louis de Beausobre, Jean Henri Samuel Formey and Johann
Georg Sulzer.
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