Antonin Boll

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Antonín Boll (born July 30, 1721 in Prague , † July 22, 1792 in Kučerov ) was a Bohemian philosopher and Jesuit .

Life

In 1736 he entered the order of the Jesuits on the Lesser Town in Prague . After his novitiate in Brno , he studied philosophy from 1739 to 1742 and theology in Olomouc from 1746 to 1749 . He then taught at colleges in Troppau , Jitschin , Brno, Znojmo and Breslau . From 1756 to 1766 he was professor of philosophy in Prague and then employed as a teacher in the seminary of Bishop Hermann Hannibal von Blümegen in Königgrätz . After his educational career, he took over the parish of Kučerov near Wischau in 1773 .

Teaching

He endeavored to bring together different views of the philosophical principles of the Roman Catholic Church with the teachings of the new science.

Works

His philosophical textbooks from the 1950s spread the teachings of the German philosopher Christian Wolff in Bohemia .

  • Institutiones philosophicae accomodatae usibus academicis I – III, 1756, 1757, 1768.
  • Meditationes philosophicae de inquirenda veritate , 1758.
  • Commentatio ethica de prudentia politica , 1759.
  • Institutiones philosophiae activae I – III, 1759.
  • Dissertatio philosophica de modo propagandi notiones per nervos , 1760.
  • Dissertatio psychologica de libertatis humanae naturae et proprietatibus , 1761.
  • Dissertatio theoretica de vi corporum cum praecedentibus propositionibus ex logica, metaphysica et mathesi , 1761.
  • Dissertationes de proprietatibus aeris , 1762.
  • Laudation funebris Francisci, Romanorum Imperatoris, parentate Universitate Carolo-Ferdinandea , 1764.
  • De argumentis demonstrantibus existentiam Dei. De vi corporum. De motrice vi et inertiae. Institutiones polemicae in usum seminarii Reginae Hradecensis , 1767.

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personal data
SURNAME Boll, Antonín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech philosopher of the Jesuits
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1792
Place of death Kučerov