Lehrbuch der practischen Philosophie. Wien: Trattner, 1779.
FEDER, Johann Georg Heinrich
From Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
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From Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 18 July 2014
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Unauthorised edition of a highly successful textbook by J.G.H. Feder (1740 1821). The true first was published in Göttingen in 1770. 'Feder was one of the most prominent proponents of what was known at the time as popular philosophy and, indeed, it was largely through Feder that Göttingen achieved the status of one of its centres (next only to Berlin). While the popular philosophers were not a group or a school in any formal sense, they were united by their assigning primacy to the practicability and applicability of philosophy over the perceived elitism and scholasticism of Wolffianism and, later, by their opposition to Kantian philosophy. Feder thought that philosophy needed to be linked to life and that the goal of practical philosophy was wisdom and happiness . He appealed to healthy reason or common sense rather than to formal and abstract argument' (Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xvi, 515 pp., somewhat later orange/pink boards, final two leaves repaired (no loss of text), no stamps or inscriptions, a good clean copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1476452101985
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