Debates, Controversies, and Prizes

Acknowledgments

Introduction- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Christian Leduc

Part One: Natural Law and History
1. The Presumption of Goodness and the Controversy over Christian Wolff 's Cosmopolitanism- Andreas Blank
2. The Duties of the Historian-Raynal's Failed Prize Question-Gesa Wellmann

Part Two: Metaphysics
3. A Negative Monadology: Condillac's Answer to the Berlin Academy Prize Competition- Christian Leduc
4. Between Optimism and Anti-Optimism: Premontval's "Middle Point"- Lloyd Strickland
5. The Public Debate about the Abuse of Power by the Berlin Academy against Samuel Koenig- Ursula Goldenbaum
6. On Progress in Metaphysics: Responses to the Berlin Academy's 1792/1795 Prize Essay Question- Stephen Howard and Pavel Reichl

Part Three: Anthropology
7. Aesthetics as Apolaustic: Baumgarten and the Controversy over Sensitive Pleasures- Alessandro Nannini
8. Drives, Inclinations, and Perfectibility: Leonhard Cochius' Response to the 1768 Prize Question- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
9. The Origin of Language as an Anthropological Topic: The 1769/1771 Prize Question of the Berlin Academy- Gualtiero Lorini
10. The Philosophical Context of the 1773/1775 Preisfrage: Johann Georg Sulzer on Knowledge and Sensibility- Daniel Dumouchel

Note on the Contributors
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• Filosofia: estética
• Filosofia: metafísica e ontologia
• Filosofia ocidental: Iluminismo
• Filosofia da Ciência

German Enlightenment; Berlin Academy; Johann Georg Sulzer; Samuel Koenig; Kant; Republic of Letters; natural law; belles-lettres; metaphysics; psychology; mathematics; physics; anthropology; language; colonialism; aesthetics; Johann Heinrich Abicht; Pierre Le Guay de Premontval; Guillaume Raynal; H.S. Reimarus