Johannes Clauberg (1622–1665)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Comenius in der Metaphysik des Jungen Clauberg

   • Ulrich G. Leinsle

   Pages 1-12

3. L’ontologie Peut-Elle Être Cartésienne? L’exemple de L’Ontosophia de Clauberg, de 1647 à 1664: De L’ens à la Mens

   • V. Carraud

   Pages 13-38

4. Die Erkennbarkeit Gottes in der Philosophie Claubergs

   • Aza Goudriaan

   Pages 39-59

5. La Place de la Metaphysica de Ente, Quae Rectius Ontosophia Dans L’histoire de L’ontologie et sa Réception Chez Christian Wolff

   • Jean École

   Pages 61-74

6. Johannes Clauberg on Perceptual Knowledge

   • L. Spruit

   Pages 75-93

7. Clauberg et les Origines de la Langue Philosophique Allemande. Une Lecture de L’Ars etymologica Teutonum (1663)

   • Claude Weber

   Pages 95-112

8. Clauberg et les Principes de Descartes

   • T. Verbeek

   Pages 113-122

9. Johannes Claubergs Behandlung des Kausalitätsproblems in der 1. und 3. Auflage Seiner Ontosophia

   • Detlev Pätzold

   Pages 123-133

10. Clauberg et Malebranche, de L’Ontosophia à la “Vision en Dieu”

    • Jean-Christophe Bardout

    Pages 135-145

11. Johann Clauberg, Corporeal Substance, and the German Response

    • C. Mercer

    Pages 147-159

12. Einengung und Befreiung als Wirkungen des Cartesianismus am Beispiel Lodewijk Meyers

    • Michael Albrecht

    Pages 161-180

13. Johannes Clauberg: A Bio-Bibliographical Sketch

    • Theo Verbeek

    Pages 181-199

14. Back Matter

    Pages 201-216

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In this book twelve outstanding historians of early modern philosophy undertake a study of the philosophy of Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665). Clauberg was not only among the first followers of Descartes (whose philosophy he taught from 1650 in Herborn and from 1652 until the end of his life in Duisburg) but also assured its survival as an academic philosophy by giving it a more traditional and more didactic expression. A first group of articles deals with Clauberg's early metaphysics as it found its expression in his Ontosophia of 1646 (republished with very considerable changes in 1664), the way it was influenced by Comenius (Leinsle), its relation to Malebranche (Bardout) and Wolff (École) and the way in which it illustrates the difficulties of a Cartesian ontology in general (Carraud). A second group of articles deals with problems of knowledge: knowledge of God (Goudriaan), perceptual knowledge (Spruit) and causality (Pätzold). There are also articles on Clauberg's curious attempt to deal philosophically with the etymology of the German language (Weber), Clauberg as a teacher of Descartes' Principia (Verbeek), Clauberg's conception of corporeal substance (Mercer), and Clauberg's relation to later, more radical developments in Cartesian philosophy, especially in Lodewijk Meyer (Albrecht). The volume is completed by a biographical introduction and a short title bibliography of Clauberg's works, which allows an appreciation of Clauberg's lasting international influence. It is the first study on this scale of one of the most influential philosophers of the seventeenth century.

• René Descartes
• knowledge
• metaphysics
• philosophy

• Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Theo Verbeek

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