Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665): and Cartesian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

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This text constitutes a study by 12 historians of early modern philosophy of the philosophy of Johannes Clauberg (1622–1665). Clauberg was not only among the first followers of Descartes (whose philosophy he taught from 1650 in Herborn and from 1652 until the end of his life in Duisburg) but also assured its survival as an academic philosophy by giving it a more traditional and didactic expression. A first group of articles deals with Clauberg’s early metaphysics as it found its expression in his Ontosophia of 1646 (republished with considerable changes in 1664), the way it was influenced by Comenius (Leinsle), its relation to Malebranche (Bardout) and Wolff (Ecole) and the way in which it illustrates the difficulties of a Cartesian ontology in general (Carraud). A second group of articles deals with problems of knowledge: knowledge of God (Goudriaan), perceptual knowledge (Spruit) and causality (Patzold).