Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher who systematized Leibniz's ideas and dominated German academic philosophy before Kant's critical revolution.
Wolff applied Leibniz's rationalist metaphysics into a comprehensive, rigorously deductive system covering ontology, cosmology, psychology, and natural law, making it the standard philosophical curriculum that the young Kant both learned from and eventually overthrew.
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