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1. plato.stanford.edu › entries › leibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Dec 22, 2007 · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history.

   • Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind

     Leibniz’s place in the history of the philosophy of mind is...

   • Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics

     1. Individuals and Worlds. In order to explain Leibniz's...

   • Leibniz's Ethics

     Although Leibniz never wrote a systematic ethical treatise,...

   • Leibniz on The Problem of Evil

     Early in his philosophical career, Leibniz, like other...

   • Leibniz's Influence on Kant

     Kant’s interest in the physics, metaphysics, epistemology,...

   • Antoine Arnauld

     Arnauld was an important participant in the philosophical...

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   What was Leibniz's philosophy?

   • As will be shown, central to Leibniz's philosophy was the view that God freely chose the best world from an infinite number of possible worlds and that a person could be said to act freely when the contrary of that action does not imply a contradiction. (This topic will be addressed principally in the article on Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics.) 3.

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   How did Leibniz change philosophy?

   • Leibniz also turned his mind to natural philosophy, having finally been able to study some of the works of the moderns; the result was a two-part treatise in 1671, the New Physical Hypothesis ( Hypothesis physica nova ).

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   What books did Leibniz write?

   • A. English editions of Leibniz's works Discourse on Metaphysics,Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology ed., tr., G.R. Montgomery (Chicago: Open Court, 1916) [googlebooks][pdf] Monadology and other writings (incl: New system, On the ultimate origination of things,Principles of nature and grace) ed., tr., Robert Latta (Oxford, 1898)

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   How does Leibniz relate to ethics and metaphysics?

   • By identifying justice with love of God and harmony between all, Leibniz brings to fruition the ethical implications of his metaphysical inquiries into God’s perfection and pre-established harmony. Ethics and metaphysics are, for Leibniz, never far apart.

   Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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3. academic.oup.com › book › 36149Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide | Oxford Academic

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   This volume contains introductory chapters on eleven of Leibniz’s key philosophical writings, covering youthful works (“Confessio philosophi”, “De summa rerum”), seminal middle-period writings (“Discourse on Metaphysics”, “New System”), to masterpieces of his maturity (“Monadology”, “Discourse on the Natural Theology of ...

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   The recently published Volume 4 of Series 6 contains the totality of Leibniz's philosophical writings between 1677 and 1690, amounting to 522 distinct documents in some 3000 pages of text. Among these texts is one high-profile work, the 1686 Discourse on Metaphysics, which has been translated into English many times.

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   A polymath and one of the founders of calculus, Leibniz is best known philosophically for his metaphysical idealism; his theory that reality is composed of spiritual, non-interacting “monads,” and his oft-ridiculed thesis that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

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   Jul 11, 2008 · History of Philosophy. texts online. Gottfried LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) A. English editions of Leibniz's works.

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9. www.leibniz-translations.com › keyLeibniz's Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide

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   The essays, written by internationally-renowned experts on Leibniz, offer clear, accessible accounts of the ideas and arguments of these key writings, along with valuable information about their composition and context.

10. academic.oup.com › book › 36149The Theodicy | Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide ...

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    It is argued that the Theodicy is best understood against a careful reading of the Preface, where Leibniz outlines the primary aim of the book, i.e. to provide the means by which natural theology and Leibniz’s conception of God as a being deserving of love may be maintained in the face of objections that stem from considering the nature of ...