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Article: Leibniz without physics.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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THIS ESSAY IS ABOUT PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS in Leibniz and Aristotle. More generally, it concerns the relation of early modern philosophy to the preceding traditions. The inquiry is conducted by way of a review of Christia Mercer's Leibniz's Metaphysics: It's Origins and Development. (1) We thus begin with the question of Leibniz's intellectual development.
What is the role of Leibniz's early work in the constitution of his mature philosophy? Conventional scholarship would emphasize 1686 as the point at which the Leibnizian philosophical system was in place, subsequent obscurities concerning forces and monads notwithstanding. In that year the Discourse on ...
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Baron von.(Reference Source)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;
January 1, 1993 ;
700+ words
... ... With the decline of interest in metaphysics in contemporary philosophy, recent studies have tended to emphasize Leibniz's significance in mathematics and logic. However, Leibniz's metaphysics have not been neglected but rather ...
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