Christian Wolff's German Ethics

New Essays

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, John Walsh, Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg) Schierbaum, Sonja (Leader of the Emmy Noether-research group "Practical Reasons before Kant (1720-1780)", Leader of the Emmy Noether-research group "Practical Reasons before Kant (1720-1780)", Department of Philosophy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) Walschots, Michael (Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) Walsh, John (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

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This volume offers collective exploration of major aspects of Christian Wolff's ethics. It focuses on what is arguably Wolff's most important and influential text on moral philosophy, namely his Rational Thoughts on the Action and Omission of Human Beings for the Promotion of their Happiness, originally published in 1720 and commonly referred to as the German Ethics to distinguish it from his later Latin works on ethics.The contributions cover a range of topics, including the systematic structure of the text itself and the relation between Wolff's ethics and the preceding natural law tradition, and many of the chapters consider the development of the basic tenets of Wolff's moral theory in his later Latin writings. Throughout the volume, special attention is given to the core concepts of Wolff's moral philosophy, such as obligation, perfection, the highest good, and happiness. Other notable topics include Wolff's conception of moral judgment and moral education, as well as the role of psychology and anthropology in his ethical thought. The volume also includes discussion of the influence of Wolff's ethics on subsequent figures such as C.A. Crusius, G.F. Meier, and Kant. As a whole, the volume seeks to show the importance of Wolff's German Ethics within the history of ethics as well as inspire others to engage with his thought.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-26
Mått162 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt740 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor380
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780192869562

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Sonja Schierbaum, Ph.D. (2012), is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group "Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780)" at the University of Würzburg. She has published several papers and book chapters on eighteenth-century German ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology. She also has research interests in late medieval philosophy. She is the author of Ockham's Assumption of Mental Speech: Thinking in a World of Particulars (Brill, 2014) and has co-edited a volume on late-medieval conceptions of self-knowledge (with Dominik Perler, Klostermann, 2014).Michael Walschots received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 2016 and has since held postdoctoral positions in Scotland, Canada, and Germany. He has published widely on the historical context of Kant's moral philosophy in journals such as Kant-Studien, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, and Ergo and has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Alexander von Humboldt FoundationJohn Walsh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He took his PhD in 2018 from the University of South Florida and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Brown University and at Université de Fribourg. He has published several book chapters and journal articles on the intersection of metaphysics and ethics in Classical German Philosophy.

IntroductionSonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, and John Walsh: Part I. The German Ethics in Its Historical Context1: Clemens Schwaiger: The Systematic Structure of Wolff's German Ethics in Context2: Frank Grunert: Natural Law as a Theory of Practical Philosophy: The Relationship Between Natural Law and Ethics in Christian Wolff's Practical Philosophy3: Ursula Goldenbaum: Wolff's Powerful Concept of Perfection and its Roots4: Stefanie Buchenau: Wolff's Modern Stoicism: Ethics, Politics, and CosmopolitanismPart II. Metaphysical and Conceptual Foundations5: John Walsh: Wolff on Obligation6: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero: Objective Morality: Wolff and the Impious Hypothesis7: Emanuel Lanzini: Is Christian Wolff's Practical Philosophy Eudaimonistic?8: Timothy Rosenkoetter: Perfection and the Foundations of Wolff's German EthicsPart III. Duty and Agency9: Paul Guyer: Perfectionism and Duties to Self in Wolff and Kant10: Michael Walschots: Wolff on the Duty to Cognize Good and Evil11: Stefano Bacin: Wolff, the Pursuit of Perfection, and What We Owe to Each Other: The Case of Veracity and Lying12: Sonja Schierbaum: Can the Will Go Wrong on Its Own? Wolff's Conception of a Deficit of the WillPart IV. Method and Reception13: Courtney Fugate: Wolff's Ethical Experimentalism and its Roots in his German Ethics14: Corey W. Dyck: Human Nature and Human Minds: Wolff's Moral Anthropology15: Paola Rumore: Secunda et adversa fortuna: Wolff and Meier on the Moral Relevance of Good Fortune and Misfortune16: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: Wolff and Crusius on the Duty to Love