id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3033 Christian Wolff (philosopher) - Wikipedia .html text/html 4162 571 60 Following Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wolff also 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. Christian Wolff redefined philosophy as the science of the possible, and applied it in a comprehensive survey of human knowledge to the disciplines of his time. Theoretical philosophy had for its parts ontology or philosophia prima as a general metaphysics,[19] which arises as a preliminary to the distinction of the three special metaphysics[20] on the soul, world and God:[21][22] rational psychology,[23][24] rational cosmology,[25] and rational theology.[26] The three disciplines are called empirical and rational because they are independent of revelation. Unfortunately, the English version is a translation of Des Champs's French edition instead of the original German of Wolff's Vernünftige Gedanken. Wolff from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3033.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3033.txt