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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 University (later dean and rector, as well as head master of Thomasschule zu Leipzig ).
Christian Thomasius (born Jan. 1, 1655, Leipzig—died Sept. 23, 1728, Halle, Saxony) was a German philosopher and progressive educator, who established the academic reputation of the newly founded University of Halle (1694) as one of the first modern universities.
Jun 11, 2018 · Christian Thomasius was a philosopher and jurist and the first important thinker of the German Enlightenment. He was born in Leipzig, the son of the Aristotelian philosopher Jakob Thomasius, who had been a teacher of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Sep 15, 2017 · This book examines the intellectual importance of religion for the origins of the German Enlightenment around 1700. In particular, I shall focus on a central figure of early eighteenth-century intellectual history: the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655–1728).
Mar 10, 2002 · 1. Christian Thomasius 1.1 Life and Works. Christian Thomasius was born on 1 January 1655 in Leipzig. He was the son of Jakob Thomasius (1622–84), a well-known jurist and philosopher at the University of Leipzig who counted Leibniz among his students.
This peaceful conversation between reason and revelation reflected Heumann’s concept of the Republic of Letters.2 During the 1680s, Samuel Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius developed a parallel defence of freedom of belief and freedom of speech.3 Thomasius used this defence to redefine the Republic of Letters.4 Heumann was a sworn follower of Th...
Christian Thomasius. (1655—1728) Quick Reference. (1655–1728) Early figure in the German Enlightenment. Thomasius taught in Leipzig and Halle, where he helped to found the university in 1694.
Sep 15, 2017 · Summary. The question of punishments in natural law had already posed a problem to Thomasius in the Institutes of 1688, and it is at least in part the theoretical challenge associated with punishment that caused him to refine and modify his natural law theory after 1688.
Sep 22, 2009 · Summary. THE CONTEXT OF THOMASIUS' PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. Until recently the distinctive character of Christian Thomasius' contribution to the social and political theory of the Frühaufklärung has proved difficult to identify.
Apr 4, 2023 · Thomasius, Christian (1655–1728), was a jurist, law professor, philosopher, and protagonist of the early Enlightenment in Germany. His work includes nearly all positions later to be considered as the key elements of the enlightenment, e.g., the emphasis of...
