Der Pflichtbegriff bei Christian Wolff und einigen anderen Philosophen der deutschen Aufklarung mit Rucksicht auf Kant : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Ethik des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Leipzig.

Portfolio of compositions with commentaries 2012-2015

This writing forms part of a portfolio of works which gathers together notations and recordings made between 2012 and 2015. The writing divides into four chapters. The first chapter undertakes an examination of abstraction. From the proposition obtained therein, that it is possible to extend within abstraction beyond a correspondence between its terms and concrete manifestations, I ask in what way abstraction may be considered to function therefrom. The second chapter performs an analysis of radical music notations from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The central analysis identifies what is essentially an evolution of what I call ''figuration'' throughout three non-chronological phases of Christian Wolff's notations. The chapter closes by questioning what form of understanding might yet be pursued in respect of this work given (a) its nature, and (b) the nature of our inquiry. The third chapter reflects on some of the philosophical problematics raised in the preceding chapters, at the same time as it prepares for those that follow in the final chapter. The final chapter is a record of the development of my thought appertaining to my compositional work. It sets out two case studies (prepared piano and postcard notations) before proceeding to a selected set of commentaries. Finally, the notion of the functioning of written and acoustical ''marks'' developed in the preceding commentaries is generalised as I develop an aesthetics of scriptural experience.

Principes du droit de la nature et des gens : extrait du grand ouvrage latin de Mr. De Wolff /

Mode of access: Internet.

Principes du droit de la nature et des gens : extrait du grand ouvrage latin de Mr. De Wolff /

Mode of access: Internet.

Greve Peder Griffenfelds levnet. Et bidrag til Danmarks historie under konge Christian den Femte.

Mode of access: Internet.

Herrn Christian Wolfs ... Natürliche Gottesgelahrtheit nach beweisender Lehrart abgefasset ... : Ins Deutsche übersetzt /

1st ed.: 1736-1737, in 2 parts.

History of Christian names /

Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,

Christian Thomasius and the desacralization of philosophy

Despite his significance in early modern Germany, where he was well-known as a political and moral philosopher, jurist, lay-theologian, social and educational reformer, Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) is little known in the world of Anglophone scholarship. 1 Unlike those of his mentor, Samuel Pufendorf, none of Thomasius's works was translated into English, when, at the end of the seventeenth century, English thinkers were searching for a final settlement to the religious question. None has been translated since. Moreover, while Thomasius has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in Germany since the 1970s, where he has been treated largely as a representative of the "early Enlightenment," there is very little secondary literature on him in English. 2 Things are however beginning to change in this regard, with recent research already giving rise to important new Anglophone books and essays. 3 Knud Haakonssen's article on [End Page 595] Thomasius for the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy might well be a straw in the wind