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- In philosophy and theology, Leibniz is most noted for his optimism, i.e. his conclusion that our world is, in a qualified sense, the best possible world that God could have created, a view sometimes lampooned by other thinkers, such as Voltaire in his satirical novella Candide.
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2 days ago · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [a] (1 July 1646 [ O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics. Leibniz has been called the "last universal genius" due to his ...
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1 day ago · Whereas earlier biographers of Newton believed they could distinguish between a young, scientific Newton and an old, non-scientific Newton, contemporary historians have shown that Newton started cultivating his wide interests well before authoring his epoch-making Principia. Newton never published a coherent account of his natural philosophy.
3 days ago · As Patrick Riley correctly notes, “Leibniz is a supremely architectonic thinker who wants to relate everything to “first philosophy”, one cannot just cordon off his moral and political thought from his metaphysics and theology: that is precisely what he himself did not do” ( Riley 1996, p. 5 ).
5 hours ago · Living a good life is an ongoing project, and I want it to start with unexamined philosophy in primary schools, but I also want resources like New Philosopher to help people to continue that ongoing project. It can be part of living a good life in itself, but it can also help give you the critical and reflective skills, and the stimulus to ...
4 days ago · Leibniz on hypothetical necessity. It is one of the best known facets of Leibniz philosophy that it is compatibilistic with regard to necessity and freedom. Leibniz (1646-1716) persistently maintained (a) that every event is determined and that what happens is necessary, yet (b) that some acts are nonetheless free. Particulars and universals ...
2 days ago · In this paper, I approach Hegel’s philosophy under the banner of a “Keplerian Revolution”, the implicit reference being, of course, to Kant’s supposed Copernican philosophical revolution. Kepler had been an early supporter of the Copernican paradigm in astronomy, but went well beyond his predecessor, and so is invoked here in an attempt to capture some of the important ways in which ...
2 days ago · Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.
