Heumann distinguishes historia philosophica (written by historians) from historia philosophiae, written by philosophers and conceived as a new philosophical discipline like the soon-to-appear philosophy of history and esthetics, all modern disciplines formulated in the Age of Enlightenment. History of philosophy expresses judgments on philosophies of the past and compares philosophies and traditions, considering what is useful, true and virtuous in them for the present. Philosophers need philosophical history of philosophy in order to produce better philosophy more attuned to their own time. Heumann deals with method and ends of history of philosophy, with philosophical historiography and highlights the independence of philosophical thought from theology, religion and myth. Though somewhat ambiguously, he sees philosophy as a discipline also suited to women and wrote a first history of female philosophers. It was not by chance that this appeared in a periodical that ran for about fifteen years for a total of around 3000 pages; the new discipline was immediately seeking and found its readership.
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Titolo del capitolo
Christoph August Heumann’s Acta philosophorum and the Rise of the History of Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment
Autori
Roberto Bordoli
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1.09
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Sottotitolo del libro
Volume 2
Curatori
Pasquale Terraciano, Francesco Valerio Tommasi
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Numero di pagine
282
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0998-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0999-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1060-7
Collana
Knowledge and its Histories
ISSN della collana
3035-5974
e-ISSN della collana
3035-5923