The Principle of Indispensable Reason in Ch. F. Baumeister

• Authors: Paz B.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author's purpose is to offer an exposition of the principle of indispensable reason introduced by a Wolff scholar Ch. F. Baumeister (1709-1785) and expounded in his 'Institutiones metaphysicae' (1736). At the time when Baumeister was working on his book the principle of indispensable reason was a frequent object of commentaries and it led to a vehement discussion (haelischer Streit). Baumeister was blamed for proposing universal determinism and fatalism, destroying thereby free agency and morality. Regardless of the validity of these criticism, Baumeister had given a paragon exposition of the principle of indispensable reason by relating it to the principle of consistency, by examining its drivability and essential properties. He was specifically interested in showing its relativity (non-absoluteness), provability, generality and intelligbility.

Keywords

EN

BAUMEISTER CH. F.; INDISPENSABLE REASON'S PRINCIPLE; PRINCIPLE OF CONSISTENCY; UNIVERSAL DETERMINISM; WOLFF CH.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1(61)
• Pages: 189-205
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Paz B.

• B. Paz, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Koszarowa 3, 51-149 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03827657