Vernunftlehre

In accordance with eighteenth-century understanding of logic, Georg Friedrich Meier’s Doctrine of Reason is at the same time and especially an introduction to the whole of philosophy. Its systematic goal does not consist exclusively in the elaboration of the formal aspects of logic, but rather in the individuation of the elements of thought and language, which make human understanding possible. Instead of limiting himself to formal truth, Meier investigates thoroughly the realms of epistemic, aesthetic, and historic truths. Meier’s logic is at the same time rhetoric and is defined as a science, which deals with the rules of learned cognition and of learned exposition. Moreover, it contains a great number of expositions pertaining to the theory of knowledge, aesthetics, poetics, hermeneutics and anthropology.