{"product_id":"first-philosophy-or-ontology-klaus-ottmann-9780882149684","title":"First Philosophy, or Ontology: Treated According to the Scientific Method, Containing the Principles of All Human Cognition","description":"The first English translation of Part 1 of the German eighteenth-century philosopher Christian Wolff's \u003cem\u003eOntology\u003c\/em\u003e (1730). Considered one of the seminal thinkers of the German Enlightenment--a group that included Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Immanuel Kant--Wolff exerted his influence on the German Enlightenment through his development of a rationalist system of knowledge in which all the propositions of science are demonstrated from first principles. By grounding metaphysics in mathematics, detangling it from the Scholastics' focus on the supernatural (that which is beyond the physical), and making ontology the first philosophy--elevating it above metaphysics as a science that subsumes metaphysics (i.e., natural theology) as well as psychology and cosmology--he took the first significant steps towards a Philosophy of Enlightenment. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Klaus Ottmann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Klaus Ottmann, Christian Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0882149687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780882149684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spring Publications Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 5.28w x 0.39d","brand":"Klaus Ottmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075451515135,"sku":"9780882149684","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f197545-78e6-4e14-9b7d-7f4129d9c1fb.jpg?v=1685459501","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-philosophy-or-ontology-klaus-ottmann-9780882149684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}