A New History of the Beginnings of the German Enlightenment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2023
We are familiar with the standard story about the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany. The Enlightenment supposedly began in the 1680s with Christian Thomasius and the University of Halle, founded in 1694, which became its first center. In Halle, Thomasius and his students developed a philosophy that was grounded in Samuel Pufendorf’s ideas of natural law and drew on the sensualism of John Locke.
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