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安东·威廉·阿莫

约1703–1759年

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心灵不会受到物理事物的影响，所以感觉仅仅属于身体——据说他那部已经失传的、论述非洲人在欧洲的法律地位的论文捍卫了他们的权利。

定位

非洲与非洲裔哲学 · 撒哈拉以南非洲 · 心灵与意识, 认识论, 政治与法

孩童时被从黄金海岸带走，作为“礼物”赠给不伦瑞克—沃尔芬比特尔公爵：已知第一位在欧洲大学获得哲学博士学位并在那里任教的非洲出生的学者——先后在哈雷、维滕贝格和耶拿。

核心思想

  • 心灵的无感受性
  • 非洲人在欧洲的权利（1729年，已佚）
  • 对笛卡尔式相互作用的批判

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影响

受影响于 2

  • 戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨

    受其影响 存在争议

    Amo grew up at the Wolfenbüttel court, whose library Leibniz directed until 1716; whether Leibniz shaped his De humanae mentis apatheia (1734) is disputed. A. W. Amo, De humanae mentis apatheia (1734); D. Menn and J. E. H. Smith (eds.), Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body (2020); J. E. H. Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (2015)

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    戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨 › 1646–1716

  • 克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫

    受其影响

    Amo taught at Halle, Wittenberg and Jena during the disputes over Christian Wolff’s philosophy, and reference works place the logic and metaphysics of his Treatise on the Art of Philosophising Soberly and Accurately (1738) in the Leibniz–Wolff school; how far he followed Wolff in detail has not been checked here. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Amo, Anton Wilhelm”; A. W. Amo, Tractatus de arte sobrie et accurate philosophandi (Halle, 1738)

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    克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫 › 1679–1754

批评

批评了 1

  • 勒内·笛卡尔

    批评了

    Amo turned against Cartesian interaction: the mind, active and immaterial, cannot sense or suffer, so sensation belongs to the living, organic body (De humanae mentis apatheia, 1734). A. W. Amo, Dissertatio inauguralis philosophica de humanae mentis apatheia (Wittenberg, 1734); S. Menn & J. E. H. Smith (eds.), Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body (2020)

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    勒内·笛卡尔 › 1596–1650

作品

立场

Amo’s Halle disputation of 1729, “On the Rights of Moors in Europe”, is lost and known only from a contemporary report. His Wittenberg dissertation On the Impassivity of the Human Mind takes up the Cartesian mind–body problem: the mind, being active and immaterial, cannot sense or suffer, so sensation must belong to the living, organic body. His Treatise on the Art of Sober and Accurate Philosophizing sets out a logic and theory of knowledge in the rationalist style of his time. The first African known to have taught philosophy at a European university, he was long left out of histories of the German Enlightenment and has been widely studied since the late twentieth century.

生平与背景

Anton Wilhelm Amo was born around 1703 near Axim on the Gold Coast, today Ghana, and taken to Europe as a child; in 1707 he was given as a “present” to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and baptised. He studied at Halle, earned his doctorate at Wittenberg in 1734 and taught in Halle, Wittenberg and Jena. Facing racist hostility, he returned to the Gold Coast around 1747. He is last recorded there in 1753, when the ship’s surgeon David Henri Gallandat visited him; he probably died around 1759.

其他主要作品

  • On the Rights of Moors in Europe (1729, lost)
  • On the Impassivity of the Human Mind (1734)
  • Treatise on the Art of Sober and Accurate Philosophizing (1738)

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