Das Buch ist eine bedeutende kulturelle Arbeit, die von Wissenschaftlern als wichtig für das Verständnis der Zivilisation anerkannt wurde. Es wurde aus dem Originaldokument reproduziert und bleibt diesem treu, einschließlich der ursprünglichen Copyright-Vermerke und Bibliotheksstempel. Diese Elemente verdeutlichen die historische Relevanz und den Wert des Werkes, das in bedeutenden Bibliotheken weltweit aufbewahrt wird.
The ›Wienerische Tugend-Spiegel‹ of 1687 develops a pedagogically oriented doctrine of virtue against the backdrop of the Turkish wars that is clothed in a description of the fortifications of Vienna. It also includes an ›Aretologistica‹ that contains in its first part an epitome of Weigels mathematical philosophy titled as »general theory of countable and measurable things« and an ethics that conceives moral action and virtue as a result of computation. The didactic in the second part sees in mathematical teaching the key to a cultivation of the will and education to virtue. It was put into practise by a famous school-experiment which is stated in a contemporary report included in the work.
›Arithmetische Beschreibung der Moral-Weißheit von Personen und Sachen‹ (Arithmetic description of the moral wisdom concerning persons and things) is Erhard Weigel’s most important work of social philosophy. It contains a pansophic political and social model that conceives the state as a moral space analogous to the domain of numbers. Weigel’s attempt to prove that certain numerical schemes such as the Tetractys form a basic principle in all categories of being complements his ascription of universal competence to the mathematical method as the sole way of grasping the essence of things. Weigel’s contractualist idea of the state and his approach to legal and political science with its emphasis on autonomy remain embedded in a universal concept that stresses the analogy of all categories of being and culminates in the idea of participation in the divine sapientia.