Jakob Thomasius
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Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684)
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| Born | 27 August 1622 Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony |
| Died | 9 September 1684 Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony |
| Fields | Philosopher |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig (B.A., 1642; M.A., 1643) |
| Academic advisors | Friedrich Leibniz |
| Doctoral students | Otto Mencke |
| Other notable students | Gottfried Leibniz |
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He was the father of Christian Thomasius and the brother of Johann Thomasius.
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Jakob Thomasius (Latin: 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. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son Christian Thomasius.
Work
Thomasius was influential in the contemporary realignment of philosophy as a discipline. Martin Mulsow writes:[1]
- According to Thomasius’ “Schediasma historicum” of 1665, from a theological point of view, philosophy needed to guarantee a clear separation of Creator from Creation, of God from Nature. It should thus only spring from Christian Aristotelianism, not from Stoicism or Neoplatonism.
He wrote on a wide range of topics, including plagiarism and the education of women.
He was the teacher of Gottfried Leibniz 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's Theological-Political Treatise.[2][3]
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
- ↑ M. Mulsow, "Practices of Unmasking" Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, p. 5.
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Further reading
- Richard Sachse, Das Tagebuch des Rectors Jakob Thomasius, Leipzig 1894.
External links
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- Thomasius' Neurotree profile
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- Jakob Thomasius in the German National Library catalogue
- Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
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