Philosophy, Cartesian, 1655 | Initiatio philosophi sive Dubitatio (...)

Clauberg, Johann

Philosophy, Cartesian, 1655 | Initiatio philosophi sive Dubitatio Cartesiana. Ad metaphysicam certitudinem viam aperiens. Leiden, A. Wyngaerden, 1655.

Name: Philosophy, Cartesian, 1655 | Initiatio philosophi sive Dubitatio Cartesiana. Ad metaphysicam certitudinem viam aperiens. Leiden, A. Wyngaerden, 1655.
SKU: 42784
Price: 800.00 EUR
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12°, full contemporary parchment binding, (30) 438 (19) pp. With printer’s mark (Ardua quae pulchra) on the title page and a manuscript ex libris (ink). Previously at the Burggrafen zu Dohna Bibliothek (stamp on verso of title page). Occasional light underlining/marginalia in ink. Very small crack in parchment on spine. A good copy.

This rare edition by Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665) is a seminal work in the field of ontology. A German professor of theology, philosophy, and Cartesian doctrine, Clauberg sought in this text to use Cartesian thought to advocate for a philosophical approach that considered the science of “being” in the abstract, intellectual sense. The famed 18th-century German philosopher Christian Wolff (1679-1754) would, in turn, revive Clauberg’s terminology in his Philosophia prima sive Ontologia (1730) nearly 80 years later.

B1251 – filosofie – cartesianisme – descartes – existentie – existentialisme – antiek boek 1655

SKU: 42784

Clauberg studied under the Dutch philosopher and early Cartesian Johannes de Raey (1622-1702) at Leiden in 1648/49.

Literature: STCN: 2 ex.; Mittelstrass I 403; Ziegenfuss I 191.

€ 872,00 (€ 800,00 ex. btw)

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