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Author | : Donald Rutherford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521597371 |
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This major contribution to Leibniz scholarship will prove invaluable to historians of philosophy, theology, and science.
Author | : Eric Watkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199934401 |
Download The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains ten new essays focused on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within medieval and modern philosophy—its various kinds (natural, moral, divine, and human), the different ways in which each is conceived, and the diverse dependency relations that are thought to obtain among them. Descartes, with the help of others, brought about an important shift in what was understood by the order of nature by placing laws of nature at the foundation of his natural philosophy. Vigorous debate then ensued about the proper formulation of the laws of nature and the moral law, about whether such laws can be justified, and if so, how-through some aspect of the divine order or through human beings-and about what consequences these laws have for human beings and the moral and divine orders. That is, philosophers of the period were thinking through what the order of nature consists in and how to understand its relations to the divine, human, and moral orders. No two major philosophers in the modern period took exactly the same stance on these issues, but these issues are clearly central to their thought. The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature is devoted to investigating their positions from a vantage point that has the potential to combine metaphysical, epistemological, scientific, and moral considerations into a single narrative.
Author | : Justin E. H. Smith |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691141789 |
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"his book provides a comprehensive survey of G. W. Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the sciences of life, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleontology. It is shown that these sundry interests were not only relevant to his core philosophical interests, but indeed often provided the insights that in part led to some of his most familiar philosophical doctrines, including the theory of corporeal substance and the theory of organic preformation"--
Author | : Marcelo Dascal |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2008-08-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1402086687 |
Download Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a “rationalist”. But what does this exactly mean? Is he a “rationalist” in the same sense in Mathematics and Politics, in Physics and Jurisprudence, in Metaphysics and Theology, in Logic and Linguistics, in Technology and Medicine, in Epistemology and Ethics? What are the most significant features of his “rationalism”, whatever it is? For the first time an outstanding group of Leibniz researchers, some acknowledged as leading scholars, others in the beginning of a promising career, who specialize in the most significant areas of Leibniz’s contributions to human thought and action, were requested to spell out the nature of his rationalism in each of these areas, with a view to provide a comprehensive picture of what it amounts to, both in its general drive and in its specific features and eventual inner tensions. The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the title question of this book, and were selected in view of their contribution to this topic. They are clustered in thematically organized parts. No effort has been made to hide the controversies underlying the different interpretations of Leibniz’s “rationalism” – in each particular domain and as a whole. On the contrary, the editor firmly believes that only through a variety of conflicting interpretive perspectives can the multi-faceted nature of an oeuvre of such a magnitude and variety as Leibniz’s be brought to light and understood as it deserves.
Author | : Donald Rutherford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198032870 |
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The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his preoccupations with logic and language, recent work has recommended an account on which theological, ethical, and metaphysical themes figure centrally in Leibniz's thought throughout his career. The significance of these themes to the development of Leibniz's philosophy is the subject of increasing attention by philosophers and historians. This collection of new essays by a distinguished group of scholars offers an up-to-date overview of the current state of Leibniz research. In focusing on nature and freedom, the volume revisits two key topics in Leibniz's thought, on which he engaged both contemporary and historical arguments. Important contributions to Leibniz scholarship in their own right, these articles collectively provide readers a framework in which to better situate Leibniz's distinctive philosophy of nature and the congenial home for a morally significant freedom that he took it to provide.
Author | : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : First philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gottfried Wilhelm Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781986704465 |
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The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. In it, he offers a new solution to mind and matter interaction by means of a pre-established harmony expressed as the 'Best of all possible worlds' form of optimism.
Author | : Larry M. Jorgensen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199660034 |
Download New Essays on Leibniz's Theodicy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers a reappraisal of a classic text of European philosophy, Leibniz's 'Theodicy'. New essays from leading scholars open a window on the historical context of the work and give close attention to its subtle and enduring philosophical arguments.
Author | : Kathleen Okruhlik |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400954905 |
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Author | : N. Rescher |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400984456 |
Download Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays included in this volume are a mixture of old and new. Three of them make their first appearance in print on this occa sion (Nos III, IV, and V). The remaining four are based upon materials previously published in learned journals or anthologies. (However, these previously published papers have been revised and, generally, expanded for inclusion here.) Detailed acknowl edgement of prior publications is made in the notes to the relevant articles. I am grateful to the editors of these several publications for their kind permission to use this material. I am grateful to an anonymous reader for the Western Ontario Series for some useful corrigenda. And I should like to thank John Horty and Lily Knezevich for their help in seeing this material through the press. NICHOLAS RESCHER Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May, 1980 xi INTRODUCTION The unifying theme of these essays is their concern with Leibniz's metaphysics of nature. In particular, they revolve about his cos mology of creation and his conception of the real world as one among infinitely many equipossible alternatives.