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   How did Leibniz contribute to philosophy?

   • Leibniz's contributions to a wide range of subjects were scattered in various learned journals, in tens of thousands of letters and in unpublished manuscripts. He wrote in several languages, primarily in Latin, French and German. [b] As a philosopher, he was a leading representative of 17th-century rationalism and idealism.

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   What is Leibniz's theory?

   • One of the fundamental theses of Leibniz's philosophy is that each substance expresses the entire universe. In order to incorporate this thesis into his general epistemology and philosophy of mind, Leibniz develops his account of “ petites perceptions ” or “minute perceptions” mentioned briefly in the section on pre-established harmony.

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   Was Leibniz a scholastic philosopher?

   • As the “modern” philosophy of Descartes, Galileo, Gassendi, Hobbes and others had not made a great impact by this time in the German-speaking lands, Leibniz's philosophical education was chiefly Scholastic in its nature, though he was also exposed to elements of Renaissance humanism.

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   What does Leibniz believe?

   • But Leibniz also believes that the mind or soul operates for particular ends and that therefore its actions are explicable in terms of final causes , whereas the actions of the body, purely instances of matter in motion according to the claims of the mechanical philosophy, are to be explained in terms of efficient causes.

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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

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   • Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics

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   • Leibniz's Ethics

     1. Theory of the Good. Leibniz's ethics centers on a...

   • Leibniz on The Problem of Evil

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   • Antoine Arnauld

     Bibliography. The citations abbreviation OA is identified...

   • Leibniz on Causation

     This suggests Leibniz’s preferred way of reconciling God’s...

   • Continental Rationalism

     1. Introduction: Rationalism and Substance. The seventeenth...

   • Ontological Arguments

     Leibniz, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding. Contains...

   • Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics

     Leibniz’s Philosophy of Physics. First published Mon Dec 17,...

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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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   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (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 and statistics.

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   May 3, 2024 · Home Philosophy & Religion Philosophers. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. German philosopher and mathematician. Also known as: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Written by. Brandon C. Look. Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky at Lexington. Author of Leibniz and the " Vinculum Substantiale " and others. Brandon C. Look, Yvon Belaval.

   • Leibniz was born on June 21 (July 1, New Style), 1646.
   • Leibniz died on November 14, 1716.
   • Leibniz’s voluminous writings include the Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas; the Discourse on Metaphysics; the Correspondence with Arnauld...
   • Leibniz is famous for being arguably the last polymath in history; for being, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the three great representatives of...

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   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a true polymath: he made substantial contributions to a host of different fields such as mathematics, law, physics, theology, and most subfields of philosophy.