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Jakob Thomasius ( la, Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Thomasius' Neurotree profile
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Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
1622 births 1684 deaths German philosophers Heads of schools in Germany 17th-century German writers 17th-century philosophers St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers 17th-century German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub
Jakob Thomasius ( la, Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the history of philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some s ...
. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig Universit ...
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Work
Thomasius was influential in the contemporary realignment of philosophy as a discipline. Martin Mulsow writes: He wrote on a wide range of topics, includingplagiarism
Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and though ...
and the education of women
Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girl ...
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He was the teacher of Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mat ...
at the University of Leipzig, where Thomasius was professor of Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, remaining a friend and correspondent, and has been described as Leibniz's mentor.
He is perhaps best remembered now as the author of the first published attack on Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch Republic, Dutch philosopher of Spanish and ...
's Theological-Political Treatise
Written by the Dutch philosopher Benedictus Spinoza, the ''Tractatus Theologico-Politicus'' (''TTP'') or ''Theologico-Political Treatise'' was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. In it, Spinoza expounds his vie ...
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Bibliography
*''Philosophia practica'' (1661) *''Schediasma historicum'' (1665) *''De foeminarum eruditione'' (1671) with Johannes Sauerbrei and Jacobus Smalcius *''Praefationes sub auspicia disputationum suarum'' (1681) *''Dissertationes ad stoicae philosophiae'' (1682) *''Orationes'' (1683)Notes
Further reading
*Richard Sachse, ''Das Tagebuch des Rectors Jakob Thomasius'', Leipzig 1894.External links
*Mathematics Genealogy Project
Thomasius' Neurotree profile
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Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
1622 births 1684 deaths German philosophers Heads of schools in Germany 17th-century German writers 17th-century philosophers St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers 17th-century German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub