Rival Enlightenments : Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and texts used -- KANT -- LEIBNIZ -- PUFENDORF -- THOMASIUS -- WOLFF -- Note on conventions -- Introduction -- PART I Rival enlightenments -- CHAPTER ONE University metaphysics -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 METAPHYSICS AS THE PHILOSOPHICAL SUBSUMPTION OF THEOLOGY -- 1.3 THE RETURN OF METAPHYSICS TO THE PROTESTANT ACADEMY -- 1.4 THE METAPHYSICAL ETHOS -- 1.5 POLITICAL METAPHYSICS -- CHAPTER TWO Civil philosophy -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 REDUCTIONS OF THE CIVIL: SOCIETY AND REASON -- 2.3 SOURCES OF THE CIVIL: POLITICS AND LAW -- 2.4 CIVIL PHILOSOPHY AND PROFANE NATURAL LAW -- PART II Civil and metaphysical philosophy -- CHAPTER THREE Leibniz's political metaphysics -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 FROM PROTESTANT SCHULMETAPHYSIK TO RATIONALIST METAPHYSICS -- 3.3 THE SUBJECT OF METAPHYSICS -- 3.3.1 The anthropology of pure reason -- 3.3.2 The exercise of abstraction -- 3.3.3 The philosopher's deportment -- 3.4 PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY -- 3.4.1 Theological philosophy -- 3.4.2 Rationalism as religion -- 3.4.3 The philosopher's sin -- 3.5 THE METAPHYSICS OF LAW -- 3.5.1 Leibniz and Christian natural law -- 3.5.2 Metaphysical abstraction and the spiritualisation of law -- 3.5.3 The continuum of spiritual and civil governance -- CHAPTER FOUR Pufendorf's civil philosophy -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION -- 4.3 FROM MORAL PERSONALITY TO CIVIL PERSONAE -- 4.4 FROM TRANSCENDENT REFLECTION TO CHASTENED OBSERVATION -- 4.5 POLITICAL SUBJECTHOOD AND CIVIL SOVEREIGNTY -- CHAPTER FIVE Thomasius and the desacralisation of politics -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 THOMASIUS AND THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY -- 5.3 THE ATTACK ON METAPHYSICAL SCHOLASTICISM -- 5.3.1 Dismantling the scholastic curriculum.

5.3.2 Historicising metaphysics -- 5.4 DETRANSCENDENTALISING ETHICS -- 5.5 NATURAL LAW -- 5.5.1 Institutiones Jurisprudentiae Divinae -- 5.5.2 Fundamenta Juris Naturae et Gentium -- 5.6 FROM MORAL PHILOSOPHY TO POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE -- AFTERWORD: THOMASIUS, WOLFF, AND THE PIETISTS -- CHAPTER SIX Kant and the preservation of metaphysics -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 THE MORALS OF METAPHYSICS -- 6.3 KANT'S METAPHYSICAL ETHOS -- 6.4 MORAL PHILOSOPHY AS METAPHYSICAL paideia -- 6.4.1 Inducing the desire for metaphysics -- 6.4.2 Formal insight and spiritual purity -- 6.4.3 Belief in metaphysics -- 6.5 THE METAPHYSICS OF LAW -- 6.5.1 Morality and law -- 6.5.2 The principle of right and noumenal possession -- 6.5.3 Kant's political metaphysics -- 6.6 THE PURE RELIGION OF REASON -- 6.6.1 Metaphysical hermeneutics -- 6.6.2 Building the moral state -- Postscript: the kingdom of truth and the civil kingdom -- References -- Index.