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Wolfgang Rother

University of Zürich
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  • University of Zürich
    Institute of Philosophy
    Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Metaphysics
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    Sebastiano Franci: a forgotten philosopher, enlightener and feminist
    . forthcoming.
    Sebastiano Franci (1715–1772), who belonged to the circle around Pietro Verri and to the authors of the Milanese journal ‘Il Caffè’, is one of the forgotten Enlightenment thinkers. He was influenced by the Physiocrats and put forward proposals for agricultural reform. As an alternative to the bloody war of expansion fought with weapons, he pleaded for a ‘war of industry’ to defeat humanity’s worst enemy, poverty, and to promote general prosperity, ‘public happiness’, which for him was the centra…Read more
    Sebastiano Franci (1715–1772), who belonged to the circle around Pietro Verri and to the authors of the Milanese journal ‘Il Caffè’, is one of the forgotten Enlightenment thinkers. He was influenced by the Physiocrats and put forward proposals for agricultural reform. As an alternative to the bloody war of expansion fought with weapons, he pleaded for a ‘war of industry’ to defeat humanity’s worst enemy, poverty, and to promote general prosperity, ‘public happiness’, which for him was the central purpose of the state. Neither luxury nor trade were morally reprehensible, he said, because they precisely served this purpose. Trade, he argued, connected people, had a peacemaking function, and made people citizens of the world. On all these points, he was not a pioneer, but he was undoubtedly a typical enlightener whose ideas were inspired by the European Enlightenment. But as the author of the ‘Difesa delle donne’ he is – and this is his lasting merit – one of the early feminist thinkers.
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    Vom Ursprung des Bösen
    Philotheos 10 21-30. 2010.
  •  27
    Epicureanism, Scepticism and Atheism in Jacob Brucker's philosophical historiography
    In Wolfgang Rother (ed.), , . 2016.
  •  49
    Contractualism and Humaneness. The philosophical framework of Pietro Verri’s and Cesare Beccaria arguments on interrogational torture and capital punishment
    . 2016.
  •  39
    The beginning of higher education in political economy in Milan and Modena. Cesare Beccaria, Alfonso Longo, Agostino Paradisi
    History of Universities 19 (2): 119-158. 2004.
  •  52
    Pleasure, joy, desire. Hedonism of the ancient and the modern
    Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (3): 543-547. 2011.
    History: PleasureHistory of Western Philosophy
  •  53
    The Teaching of Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Zurich
    History of Universities 11 59-74. 1992.
    17th/18th Century Philosophy, Miscellaneous
  •  36
    «Paratus sum sententiam mutare». The Influence of Cartesian Philosophy at Basle
    History of Universities 22 (1): 71-97. 2007.
    René Descartes
  •  35
    La maggiore felicità possibile: Untersuchungen zur Philosophie der Aufklärung in Nord- und Mittelitalien
    Schwabe. 2005.
    Das Gluck bildet seit den Anfangen abendlandischen Denkens das thematische Zentrum der praktischen Philosophie. Die Realisierung des grosstmoglichen Glucks der grossten Zahl, die sich die Aufklarung auf ihre Fahne geschrieben hat, gehort zu den theoretischen praktischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Dieser ungebrochenen Aktualitat verdankt die Aufklarung vielfaltige Bemuhungen zu ihrer Erforschung, in die sich die vorliegenden Untersuchungen einreihen. Indem sie ihr Augenmerk auf die explizit…Read more
    Das Gluck bildet seit den Anfangen abendlandischen Denkens das thematische Zentrum der praktischen Philosophie. Die Realisierung des grosstmoglichen Glucks der grossten Zahl, die sich die Aufklarung auf ihre Fahne geschrieben hat, gehort zu den theoretischen praktischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Dieser ungebrochenen Aktualitat verdankt die Aufklarung vielfaltige Bemuhungen zu ihrer Erforschung, in die sich die vorliegenden Untersuchungen einreihen. Indem sie ihr Augenmerk auf die expliziten wie impliziten philosophischen Aufklarungsdenker richten und durch eine philosophisch geleitete Lekture ihrer Texte das komplexe philosophische Profil des Illuminismo zwischen Mailand und Florenz herausarbeiten, beheben sie speziell im Bereich der Philosophiegeschichte bestehende Defizite in der Aufklarungsforschung. Sie bieten die erste umfassendere Darstellung der nord- und mittelitalienischen Philosophie der Aufklarung.
  •  52
    Ramus and Ramism in Switzerland
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    The influence of Petrus Ramus: studies in sixteenth and seventeenth century philosophy and sciences (edited book)
    with Mordechai Feingold and Joseph S. Freedman
    Schwabe & Co.. 2001.
    15th/16th Century Philosophy17th/18th Century Philosophy
  •  42
    German enlightenment
    In Gregory Claey (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Modern Political Thought, Cq Press. pp. 342-349. 2013.
  •  87
    Italian enlightenment debates on religion and church. Casanova's philosophy and its background
    In , . pp. 95-117. 2016.
    17th/18th Century Philosophy
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    Nur Wesentliches, aber auch nach Möglichkeit alles Wesentliche in concisester Form: Zum alten und neuen Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 84 (2): 232-241. 2002.
    History of Western Philosophy
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