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Article: LEIBNIZ AND THE RATIONAL ORDER OF NATURE.(Review) (book review)
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- The Philosophical Review
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- January 1, 2000
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LEIBNIZ AND THE RATIONAL ORDER OF NATURE. By DONALD RUTHERFORD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 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 (1). Although Rutherford does not succeed in showing that the theodicy is essential to Leibniz's metaphysics, he effectively uses the theodicy as an entry into Leibniz's metaphysics and he highlights the many links between them. Of course, there are other significant ways of entering Leibniz's philosophy--he wanted to "do justice to theology as to physics"--but Rutherford reminds us that ...
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