The paper focuses on Wolff’s empirical psychology, analyzing its contents both from an historical, and a theoretical point of view. Considering the discipline the main innovation that Wolff introduced in the discipline of the 'science of the soul' in his time, the paper presents on the one hand the distance it displays between Wolff’s metaphysical statements and Leibniz’s monadology, and on the other hand the central role played here by the connubium rationis et experientiae. This peculiar methodological purpose of Wolff’s philosophy finds in the relation between the empirical and the rational science of the soul one of its most remarkable realizations. The final part of the paper presents the contents of the main parts of Wolff’s Psychologia empirica, and briefly sketches the stages of its influence on the later philosophical and anthropological discussion.

Empirical Psychology

Rumore, Paola
2018-01-01

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The paper focuses on Wolff’s empirical psychology, analyzing its contents both from an historical, and a theoretical point of view. Considering the discipline the main innovation that Wolff introduced in the discipline of the 'science of the soul' in his time, the paper presents on the one hand the distance it displays between Wolff’s metaphysical statements and Leibniz’s monadology, and on the other hand the central role played here by the connubium rationis et experientiae. This peculiar methodological purpose of Wolff’s philosophy finds in the relation between the empirical and the rational science of the soul one of its most remarkable realizations. The final part of the paper presents the contents of the main parts of Wolff’s Psychologia empirica, and briefly sketches the stages of its influence on the later philosophical and anthropological discussion.
2018
Handbuch Christian Wolff
Springer
175
196
9783658147365
empirical psychology, rational psychology, soul, connubium rationis et experientiae, cognitive faculty, appetitive faculty, anthropology
Rumore, Paola
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