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247Christian Wolff on Common Notions and Duties of EsteemJournal of Early Modern Studies 8 (1): 171-193. 2019.While contemporary accounts understand esteem and self-esteem as essentially competitive phenomena, early modern natural law theorists developed a conception of justified esteem and self-esteem based on naturally good character traits. This article explores how such a normative conception of esteem and self-esteem is developed in the work of Christian Wolff. Two features make Wolff’s approach distinctive: He uses the analysis of common notions that are expressed in everyday language to provide a…Read more
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242Julius Caesar Scaliger on Plants, Species, and the Ordained Power of GodScience in Context 25 (4): 503-523. 2012.ArgumentThe sixteenth-century physician and philosopher Julius Caesar Scaliger suggests that in particular cases plants can come into being that belong to a plant species that did not exist before. At the same time, he holds that God could not have created a more perfect world. However, does the occurrence of new species not imply that the world was not the best possible world from the beginning? In this article, I explore a set of metaphysical ideas that could provide Scaliger with the means of…Read more
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239Justice and the Eclecticism of Protestant Ethics, 1580-1610Studia Leibnitiana 40 (2). 2008.Theorien von Gerechtigkeit als einer ethischen Tugend spielen eine große Rolle in der protestantischen Ethik vor dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Eines der hervorstechenden Merkmale dieser Theorien ist ihr eklektischer Charakter: Sie verbinden Elemente aus verschiedenen Traditionen der antiken Tugendethik, vor allem der platonischen, aristotelischen und stoischen. Die Gerechtigkeitstheorien von protestantischen Philosophen wie Rudolph Goclenius, Clemens Timpler und Bartholomäus Keckermann illustrieren…Read more
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236Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes by Kuni Sakamoto (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (3): 543-544. 2017.Julius Caesar Scaliger was a natural philosopher and literary theorist whose work was widely discussed throughout the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. After this period, it fell into oblivion, only to be rediscovered during the last three decades or so. His natural philosophy has triggered a series of specialized studies on particular aspects of his thought, especially those aspects that were influential in the development of early modern corpusculari…Read more
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226Nicolaus Taurellus on Vegetative Powers and the Question of Substance MonismIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Andreas Blank (eds.), Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer. pp. 199-219. 2021.This article analyzes the treatment of vegetative powers in Nicolaus Taurellus’s critical response to Andrea Cesalpino. Taurellus’s interest in this topic derives from larger metaphysical and theological concerns. His concern is that Cesalpino’s view that vegetative powers are due to a divine principle of activity inherent in natural particulars leads to a version of substance monism that is incompatible with the Christian doctrine of creation. Taurellus’s critique can best be understood within …Read more
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226Presumption, Torture and the Controversy Over Excepted Crimes, 1600–1632Intellectual History Review 22 (2): 131-145. 2012.
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225Christoph Besold on confederation rights and duties of esteem in diplomatic relationsIntellectual History Review 32 (1): 51-70. 2022.The self-worth of political communities is often understood to be an expression of their position in a hierarchy of power; if so, then the desire for self-worth is a source of competition and conflict in international relations. In early modern German natural law theories, one finds the alternative view, according to which duties of esteem toward political communities should reflect the degree to which they fulfill the functions of civil government. The present article offers a case study, exami…Read more
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224Instrumental causes and the natural origin of souls in Antonio Ponce Santacruz's theory of animal generationAnnals of Science 76 (2): 184-209. 2019.ABSTRACT This article studies the theory of animal seeds as purely material entities in the early seventeenth-century medical writings of Antonio Ponce Santacruz, royal physician to the Spanish king Philipp IV. Santacruz adopts the theory of the eduction of substantial forms from the potentiality of matter, according to which new kinds of causal powers can arise out of material composites of a certain complexity. Santacruz stands out among the late Aristotelian defenders of eduction theory becau…Read more
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216Later Medieval Metaphysics. Ontology, Language & Logic (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 35 (2): 211-213. 2014.The present volume brings together work that will be of interest both to specialists in medieval philosophy and to those working in contemporary or more recent historical periods of metaphysics. Th...
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216Spätrenaissance-Philosophie in Deutschland, 1570-1650. Entwürfe zwischen Humanismus und Konfessionalisierung, okkulten Traditionen und Schulmetaphysik (review)Early Science and Medicine 16 (3): 260-262. 2011.
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214Leibniz on Usucaption, Presumption, and International JusticeStudia Leibnitiana 43 (1): 70-86. 2011.
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213Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 37 (2): 170-171. 2014.
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213The Morality of Self-Acceptance. La Rochefoucauld and the Augustinian ChallengeEarly Modern French Studies 45 (1): 131-149. 2023.This article argues that the reception of Augustinian ideas in Pascal and Nicole can be used to clarify what is distinctive in La Rochefoucauld’s treatment of self-relations. La Rochefoucauld does not share the Augustinian dichotomy between self-love at the price of forgetting God and love of God at the price of self-contempt that is prominent in both Pascal and Nicole. Rather, La Rochefoucauld develops a conception of an attitude towards the self that could be described as self-acceptance. As h…Read more
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209Reflexion und Leibniz’ Theorie der GerechtigkeitIn Otto Neumaier (ed.), Gerechtigkeit: Auf der Suche nach einem Gleichgewicht, De Gruyter. pp. 299-316. 2005.
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202Leibniz, Locke, and the Early Modern Controversy over Legal MaximsHistory of European Ideas 41 (8): 1080-1092. 2015.SUMMARYThis article investigates the context of a side line in Leibniz's critique of Locke on maxims. In an enigmatic and little-explored remark, Leibniz objects that Locke has overlooked some legal maxims that fulfil the function of ‘constituting the law’. I propose to read this remark against the background of the divergence between conceptions of legal maxims in the common law tradition and conceptions of legal maxims in the Roman law tradition. In a few remarks, Locke seems to echo the commo…Read more
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197Presumptions and Cognitive Simplicity in Leibniz and Early Modern Legal TheoryIn Tilmann Altwicker, Francis Cheneval & Matthias Mahlmann (eds.), Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie bei G. W. Leibniz, Mohr Siebeck. pp. 23-42. 2021.
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190Value, Justice, and Presumption in the Late Scholastic Controversy over Price RegulationJournal of the History of Ideas 80 (2): 183-202. 2019.
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186Johannes von Felden on Usucaption, Justice, and the Society of StatesJournal of the History of Ideas 74 (3): 403-423. 2013.
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184Leibniz: sobre las presunciones y la simplicidad cognitivaTópicos: Revista de Filosofía 39 (1). 2020.Este artículo examina el rol del concepto de simplicidad cognitiva en la perspectiva de Leibniz sobre las presunciones. El tratamiento de Leibniz acerca de la conexión entre simplicidad y presunción puede aportar algo significativo a los enfoques contemporáneos sobre la plausibilidad de las presunciones. Esto se explica porque, a diferencia de los enfoques contemporáneos centrados en el lado pragmático de la simplicidad cognitiva, Leibniz ha procurado basarla en aquello que ocurre con mayor faci…Read more
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179Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz and the Descriptive Nature of Metaphysical ConceptsIn P. Phemister & S. Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. pp. 51--61. 2007.
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172Cartesian Logic and Locke’s Critique of MaximsIn Philippe Hamou & Martine Pécharman (eds.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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159Presumption and Leibniz’s Metaphysics of ActionIn Adrian Nita (ed.), Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity and Transformation, Springer. pp. 89-106. 2015.
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158Leibniz on Justice as a Common Concept: A Rejoinder to Patrick RileyThe Leibniz Review 16 205-214. 2006.
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157Leibniz and the Presumption of JusticeStudia Leibnitiana 38 (2). 2006.In den Elementa juris naturalis behauptet Leibniz, dass es rational ist zu präsumieren, dass eine gegebene Handlung gerecht ist. Diese Behauptung scheint in Widerspruch zu seiner Auffassung zu stehen, dass das, was präsumiert wird, einfacher ist als sein Gegenteil. Nach Leibniz ist einfacher, was weniger Voraussetzungen hat als etwas anderes, wobei er zwischen logischen und ontologischen Voraussetzungen unterscheidet. Dieser Diskussionsbeitrag versucht zu zeigen, dass Voraussetzungen auf der ont…Read more
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156Ramus and Leibniz on analysisIn Marcelo Dascal (ed.), Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, Springer. pp. 155--166. 2008.
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152Common Notions and Immortality in Digby and the Early LeibnizIn Han Thomas Adriaenssen & Laura Georgescu (eds.), The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Springer. 2022.
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151Julius Caesar Scaliger on Plant Generation and the Question of Species ConstancyEarly Science and Medicine 15 (2): 266-286. 2010.
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151Metaphilosophie und das Prinzip des Widerspruchs: Leibniz, Wolff und Du ChâteletIn Ruth Hagengruber & Hartmut Hecht (eds.), Emilie du Châtelet Und Die Deutsche Aufklärung, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 79-98. 2019.
Andreas Blank
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
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Alpen-Adria Universität KlagenfurtResearcher
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |