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Article: Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation: The Persistence of Premodern Ideas in Modern Philosophy.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 1998
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McCullough, Lawrence B. Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation: The Persistence of Premodern Ideas in Modern Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. xv + 209 pp. Cloth, $128.00--The focus of this book is Leibnizs first written work, the Disputatio Metaphysica de Principio Individui of 1663. In seven chapters divided into three major sections, the author convincingly argues that we need to rethink, if not throw away, the label of "modern" that we attach to Leibniz's philosophy. In this work, McCullough demonstrates that Leibniz's view on individuation ultimately comes from the late medieval tradition, and the philosophy of Suarez in particular. Moreover, ...
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...LEIBNIZ AND THE RATIONAL ORDER OF NATURE. By DONALD RUTHERFORD ... Pp. xiii, 301. In this comprehensive study of Leibniz's mature metaphysics, Donald Rutherford attempts to recover Leibniz's theodicy as an essential part of his philosophy ...
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