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- In his letters, Leibniz expounds upon such subjects as the nature and operation of the mind, innate knowledge, the afterlife, ethics, and human nature. The letters of Sophie and Sophie Charlotte contain their only known philosophical writings, which offer valuable insight into their views and characters.
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Jul 29, 2011 · This is an English translation (very largely from the French) of what the editor has termed philosophical correspondence between Leibniz and his patron, Electress Sophie of Hanover (1630-1714) and the latter's daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1668-1705).
LEIBNIZ AND THE TWO SOPHIES is a critical edition of all of the philosophically important material from the correspondence between the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his two royal patronesses, Electress Sophie of Hanover (1630-1714), and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1668-1705).
LEIBNIZ AND THE TWO SOPHIES is a critical edition of all of the philosophically important material from the correspondence between the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his two royal patronesses, ...
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Lloyd Strickland
- 2011
He pits the volume against a scholarly tradition that has viewed the two Sophies as either, at best, significant footnotes in the story of Leibniz, or at worst, irrelevant philosophical lightweights.
Leibniz and the Two Sophies is primarily a selection from the correspondence between Leibniz and Sophie, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714) and the corre-spondence between Leibniz and Sophie’s daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prus-sia (1668-1705).
Jun 23, 2011 · Leibniz and the Two Sophies is a critical edition of the philosophical correspondence between the seventeenth-century philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and his two royal patronesses, Electress Sophie of Hanover and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia.
The Philosophical Correspondence. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Sophie Electress of Hanover, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia. Edited and Translated by Lloyd Strickland. In his introduction, Lloyd Strickland proposes that Sophie, Electress of Hanover, and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, found consolation in the idea of divine ...
