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This volume offers collective exploration of major aspects of Christian Wolff's ethics. It focuses on what is arguably Wolff's most important and influential text on moral philosophy, namely his Rational Thoughts on the Action and Omission of Human Beings for the Promotion of their Happiness, originally published in 1720 and commonly referred to as the German Ethics to distinguish it from his later Latin works on ethics.
The contributions cover a range of topics, including the systematic structure of the text itself and the relation between Wolff's ethics and the preceding natural law tradition, and many of the chapters consider the development of the basic tenets of Wolff's moral theory in his later Latin writings. Throughout the volume, special attention is given to the core concepts of Wolff's moral philosophy, such as obligation, perfection, the highest good, and happiness. Other notable topics include Wolff's conception of moral judgment and moral education, as well as the role of psychology and anthropology in his ethical thought. The volume also includes discussion of the influence of Wolff's ethics on subsequent figures such as C.A. Crusius, G.F. Meier, and Kant. As a whole, the volume seeks to show the importance of Wolff's German Ethics within the history of ethics as well as inspire others to engage with his thought.
Contents
IntroductionSonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, and John Walsh:
Part I. The German Ethics in Its Historical Context
1: Clemens Schwaiger: The Systematic Structure of Wolff's German Ethics in Context
2: Frank Grunert: Natural Law as a Theory of Practical Philosophy: The Relationship Between Natural Law and Ethics in Christian Wolff's Practical Philosophy
3: Ursula Goldenbaum: Wolff's Powerful Concept of Perfection and its Roots
4: Stefanie Buchenau: Wolff's Modern Stoicism: Ethics, Politics, and Cosmopolitanism
Part II. Metaphysical and Conceptual Foundations
5: John Walsh: Wolff on Obligation
6: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero: Objective Morality: Wolff and the Impious Hypothesis
7: Emanuel Lanzini: Is Christian Wolff's Practical Philosophy Eudaimonistic?
8: Timothy Rosenkoetter: Perfection and the Foundations of Wolff's German Ethics
Part III. Duty and Agency
9: Paul Guyer: Perfectionism and Duties to Self in Wolff and Kant
10: Michael Walschots: Wolff on the Duty to Cognize Good and Evil
11: Stefano Bacin: Wolff, the Pursuit of Perfection, and What We Owe to Each Other: The Case of Veracity and Lying
12: Sonja Schierbaum: Can the Will Go Wrong on Its Own? Wolff's Conception of a Deficit of the Will
Part IV. Method and Reception
13: Courtney Fugate: Wolff's Ethical Experimentalism and its Roots in his German Ethics
14: Corey W. Dyck: Human Nature and Human Minds: Wolff's Moral Anthropology
15: Paola Rumore: Secunda et adversa fortuna: Wolff and Meier on the Moral Relevance of Good Fortune and Misfortune
16: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: Wolff and Crusius on the Duty to Love
