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Christian Wolff
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German philosopher (1679–1754)
Christian Wolff was an influential German philosopher of the 17th and 18th centuries who developed a comprehensive philosophical system covering logic, metaphysics, ethics, and natural philosophy. His work significantly shaped European intellectual thought during the Enlightenment and established frameworks for understanding reason and knowledge that influenced philosophy for generations to come.
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- 1679
- Died
- 1754
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- 167
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- Vernünfftige gedancken von der menschen thun und lassen
- Philosophia rationalis
- Christian Wolff
- Recueil de nouvelles pieces philosophiques
- Le philosophe-roi et le roi-philosophe ; La théorie des affaires publiques
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Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music. Wolff was born in Nice in France of German parentage. His family moved to the United States in 1941, and he became an American citizen in 1946. He studied classics at Harvard University (he is a specialist in the work of Euripides) and upon graduating took up a teaching post there which he kept until 1970 when he began to teach classics, comparative literature, and music at Dartmouth College until his
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5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,859x
- A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling
· 2014 · cited 30,222x
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,167x
- Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
· 2016 · cited 22,048x
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Quotes
- “Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Christian Wolff (/vɔːlf/; German: [vɔlf]; less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian von Wolff in 1745; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which some deem the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany.
Wolff wrote in German as his primary language of scholarly instruction and research, although he did translate his works into Latin for his transnational European audience. A founding father of, among other fields, economics and public administration as academic disciplines, he concentrated especially in these fields, giving advice on practical matters to people in government, and stressing the professional nature of university education.
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