Bernard Bolzano Gesamtausgabe / Band II, B, 16,2: Philosophische Tagebücher 1811-1817

The Analecta mixta VII and VIII contained in this volume of the Philosophical Diaries show Bolzano on a comprehensive search for orientation, as he combed through sophisticated press organs such as the Leipziger Literaturzeitung and the Heidelbergische Jahrbücher für Literatur of the years 1811 to 1814, receiving and often commenting on everything that interested him. The thematic spectrum is broad, whereby weightings can be recognized: a lot of theology with consideration of supernaturalism and theological rationalism, a tendency to be rather undecided about philosophy, as he was still on the way to his own system here, and even some mathematics. The strong inclination towards educational ideas from the previous diaries (BGA 2B.14 and 15) continues in the reception of Pädagogica. Bolzano's interest in legal issues, which ultimately boils down to an overall conception of a functioning human society, as he presented it in the Büchlein vom besten Staate (Little Book of the Best State, first published in 1932), is very remarkable.