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Farewell Aristotle! The Turn toward German Philosophy

  • Mykola Fediai

The chapter analyzes the mid-18th-century shift at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy initiated by Symon Todorskyi after his studies in Halle. Rejecting scholastic Aristotelianism, professors turned to the German philosophy of Christian Wolff, marking a major transformation in Kyiv’s intellectual tradition.

  • Keywords:
  • Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,
  • scholastic Aristotelianism,
  • Wolffian philosophy,
  • Halle,
  • Pietism,
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Mykola Fediai

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Ukraine - ORCID: 0000-0001-8102-4036

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  • Publication Year: 2026
  • Pages: 175-201
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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Farewell Aristotle! The Turn toward German Philosophy

Authors

Mykola Fediai

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-1033-1.09

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2026

Copyright Information

© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Latin Philosophy and Greek Faith

Book Subtitle

The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on the Intellectual Map of Early Modern Europe

Authors

Mykola Fediai

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

292

Publication Year

2026

Copyright Information

© 2026 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY 4.0

Metadata License

CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-1033-1

ISBN Print

979-12-215-1032-4

eISBN (pdf)

979-12-215-1033-1

Series Title

Knowledge and its Histories

Series ISSN

3035-5974

Series E-ISSN

3035-5923

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