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Erhard Weigel’s 1673 work contains the outline of a pansophic system that subjects all categories of being to the universal standard of the mathematical method. Following the doctrine of tres operations mentis, Weigel begins by establishing a parallel between definitions and numbers. While noting the artificiality of ordering definitions in this way, Weigel insists thatestimative knowledge alone is able to grasp the essence of things. It is only the mathesis, that is, the discretionary part of every science, that completes the project of a pansophic encyclopedia. Leibniz extensively studied and excerpted this work, which served as an important foundation for his plan for a demonstrative encyclopedia.
This treatise contains Weigel’s first all-encompassing depiction of his autonomous science, which conceives the geometrical method with its strict logical coherence both as the true philosophy and the universally valid method of any science. The treatise, which has an anti-scholastic bent, seeks to restitute the pure teachings of Aristotle. It is divided into sections addressing the definition and the subject of proof, the principles of proof and the practice of the proof or method. The latter unfolds, as methodus universalis, in an all-encompassing system of world wisdom throughout all philosophical disciplines. This system culminates in God as the greatest good or the origin and goal of science. The treatise significantly influenced the young Leibniz and his efforts to establish an all-embracing »scientia generalis«.
This treatise (published in 1693) develops the concept of a universal science based on mathematics. It is also conceived as a methodologically exact natural theology. The foundation of this method is provided by the outlines of a universally applicable research logic modeled on geometrical analysis. The treatise contains a mathematically modeled doctrine of creation deployed as a metaphysics of movement, according to which the creature is understood as a geometrical image of divine thought. Weigel confronts the advance of atheism in his society with a mathematical proof of God’s existence, to which Leibniz responded with an elaborate critical appreciation.
›Arithmetische Beschreibung der Moral-Weißheit von Personen und Sachen‹ (Arithmetic description of the moral wisdom concerning persons and things) is Erhard Weigel’s most important work of social philosophy. It contains a pansophic political and social model that conceives the state as a moral space analogous to the domain of numbers. Weigel’s attempt to prove that certain numerical schemes such as the Tetractys form a basic principle in all categories of being complements his ascription of universal competence to the mathematical method as the sole way of grasping the essence of things. Weigel’s contractualist idea of the state and his approach to legal and political science with its emphasis on autonomy remain embedded in a universal concept that stresses the analogy of all categories of being and culminates in the idea of participation in the divine sapientia.
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This anthology contains several small treatises of Weigel. In two metaphysical dissertations of 1652 he develops a non-essentialist concept of existence which is understood as affection of any true being and which is determined by the modes of duration and of space. Weigel finally identifies duration and existence; and in his treatises on pansophic physics and philosophy of body he bases a »mathematic proof« of divine existence on it. Weigel’s proof of divine existence derives from the experience of permanent temporal flux and deduces the existence of a permanent being exempt from that change which recreates the world from nothing and keeps it up in any instance (creatio continuata). It is well known that this proof aroused the interest of Leibniz whose philosophic correspondence of the seventies refers to some of the small treatises edited here like the ›Theodixis Pythagorica‹ of 1675.
The ›Wienerische Tugend-Spiegel‹ of 1687 develops a pedagogically oriented doctrine of virtue against the backdrop of the Turkish wars that is clothed in a description of the fortifications of Vienna. It also includes an ›Aretologistica‹ that contains in its first part an epitome of Weigels mathematical philosophy titled as »general theory of countable and measurable things« and an ethics that conceives moral action and virtue as a result of computation. The didactic in the second part sees in mathematical teaching the key to a cultivation of the will and education to virtue. It was put into practise by a famous school-experiment which is stated in a contemporary report included in the work.