Wolff’s relation to Leibniz and Kant’s relation to both are notoriously vexed questions. First, this paper argues that Wolff’s most serious departure from Leibniz consists in his (so far overlooked) rejection of the latter’s infinitism. Second, it contends that the controversies that surrounded Wolff’s early acceptance of infinite causal regress and prompted his conversion to finitism played a prominent role in shaping the theses of Kant’s Antinomies. Whereas Leibniz and the early Wolff considered infinite regress to provide support for the contingency of the world and the existence of God, Wolff’s enemies condemned it as Spinozistic. After Wolff, the claim that an infinite chain of causes is impossible became the standard view among both Wolffian and anti-Wolffian metaphysicians.

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无限回归：沃尔夫的宇宙学和康德二律背反的背景

沃尔夫与莱布尼茨的关系和康德与两者的关系是众所周知的令人烦恼的问题。首先，本文认为沃尔夫与莱布尼茨最严重的背离在于他（迄今为止被忽视）拒绝了莱布尼茨的无限性。其次，它认为围绕沃尔夫早期接受无限因果回归并促使他皈依有限论的争论在塑造康德的二律背反的论点方面发挥了重要作用。莱布尼茨和早期的沃尔夫认为无限倒退来支持世界的偶然性和上帝的存在，沃尔夫的敌人则谴责它是斯宾诺兹主义的。在沃尔夫之后，无限的原因链是不可能的，这成为沃尔夫和反沃尔夫形而上学家的标准观点。