Compendium of Philosophical History

they are discussed. He held these publicly at the Academy of Halle in the year 1700. In these, the first presented moral philosophy restricted to its own limits; the second, the freedom of the will in moral actions; the third, the nature and character of the affections; the fourth, the habit of the human body for moral actions; the fifth, self-love philautia self-love, the primary source of all vices; the sixth, the cardinal vices; the seventh, the love of God; and the eighth, the cardinal virtues. Nor should the very elegant book prepared by the care and study of Andreas Rüdiger, who flourishes in our age with the praise of a keen philosopher, be left unmentioned; it was published in German in the year 1722 with this title: The Prudence to Live and to Rule according to the Sense and Teaching-Method of a truly highly learned Man, and interspersed with the Author’s own thoughts. For the person praised in its title as a truly most learned man is none other than,