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PSYCHOLOGY
RATIONAL
TREATED ACCORDING TO THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, Wolff’s "scientific method" refers to the demonstrative method of mathematics applied to philosophy, seeking to derive truths from first principles.
IN WHICH THOSE THINGS WHICH
CONCERNING THE HUMAN SOUL
BECOME KNOWN THROUGH THE INDUBITABLE RELIABILITY OF EXPERIENCE,
ARE EXPLAINED THROUGH THE ESSENCE AND
NATURE OF THE SOUL,
AND
TOWARD A DEEPER KNOWLEDGE
OF NATURE AND ITS AUTHOR The "Author of Nature" is a common Enlightenment-era reference to God as the creator and designer of the universe.
ARE SET FORTH FOR GENERAL BENEFIT.
BY THE AUTHOR
CHRISTIAN WOLFF,
COUNSELOR OF STATE TO THE MOST POWERFUL KING OF THE SWEDES AND LANDGRAVE OF HESSE,
PRIMARY PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY
IN THE ACADEMY OF MARBURG, HONORARY PROFESSOR
OF ST. PETERSBURG, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
OF PARIS, AND OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF BRITAIN AND
PRUSSIA.
FRANKFURT & LEIPZIG, 1734.
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