Jakob Thomasius ( la, Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the

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. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son Christian Thomasius.

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Thomasius was influential in the contemporary realignment of philosophy as a discipline.

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writes: He wrote on a wide range of topics, including

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and the education of women. He was the teacher of

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at the

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, where Thomasius was professor of Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, remaining a friend and correspondent, and has been described as Leibniz's mentor. He is perhaps best remembered now as the author of the first published attack on Spinoza's

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*''Philosophia practica'' (1661) *''Schediasma historicum'' (1665) *''De foeminarum eruditione'' (1671) with Johannes Sauerbrei and Jacobus Smalcius *''Praefationes sub auspicia disputationum suarum'' (1681) *''Dissertationes ad stoicae philosophiae'' (1682) *''Orationes'' (1683)

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Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
1622 births 1684 deaths German philosophers Heads of schools in Germany 17th-century German writers 17th-century philosophers St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers 17th-century German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub

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