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Author : R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415038065
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations II written by R. S. Woolhouse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415038058
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations I written by R. S. Woolhouse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard T. W. Arthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192849077
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity written by Richard T. W. Arthur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).
Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879574
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Leibniz's Metaphysics written by Catherine Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibniz’s early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in his theory of substance and his subsequent de-emphasis of logical determinism, and finally to his doctrines of harmony and optimization. Specific attention is given to Leibniz’s understanding of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke. Wilson analyzes Leibniz’s complex response to the new mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the foundations on which it rested, and his return to the past to locate the resources for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the key to an understanding not only of Leibniz’s monadology but also of his views on the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of external causal influence. A final chapter considers the problem of Leibniz-reception in the post-Kantian era, and the difficulty of coming to terms with a metaphysics that is not only philosophically "critical" but, at the same time, “compensatory.” Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719017025
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810116
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Writings written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edition of what are arguably Leibniz’s three most important presentations of his metaphysical system: the Discourse on Metaphysics, from 1686, and The Principles of Nature and of Grace and The Monadology, from 1714. Based on the Latta and Montgomery translations and revised by the editor, these texts set out the essentials of Leibniz’s mature metaphysical views. The edition includes an introductory essay and a set of appendices of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century texts, which help illuminate and contextualize Leibniz’s ideas. Among these are extensive passages from Leibniz’s Theodicy, many of which are cited in The Monadology.
Author : G. W. Leibniz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149803
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology written by G. W. Leibniz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous influence on the philosophy of Herder, Feuerbach, and Hegel as well as on the writings of Schiller and Goethe. Two of Leibniz's most studied and often quoted works appear in this volume: Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology. Published in 1686, the Discourse on Metaphysics consists of Leibniz's expansion of a letter to his theologian friend Antoine Arnauld, in which he explains that through our perceptions we express the rest of the universe from our own unique perspectives. The whole world is thus contained in each individual substance as each represents the same universe and "the universe is in a way multiplied as many times as there are substances, and similarly the glory of God is redoubled by as many completely different representations of His work." It is here that Leibniz makes his famous assertion that God, with perfect knowledge and goodness, freely chose to create this, the best of all possible worlds. The Monadology, written in 1714, offers a concise synopsis of Leibniz's philosophy. It establishes the laws of final causes, which underlie God's free choice to create the best possible world--a world that serves as dynamic and perfectly ordered evidence of the wisdom, power, and benevolence of its creator.
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz ... written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey K. McDonough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197629091
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A Miracle Creed written by Jeffrey K. McDonough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rival to Isaac Newton in mathematics and physics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that our world--the best of all possible worlds--must be governed by a principle of optimality. This book explores Leibniz's pursuit of optimality in five of his most important works in natural philosophy and shows how his principle of optimality bridges his scientific and philosophical studies. The first chapter explores Leibniz's work on the laws of optics and its implications for his defense of natural teleology. The second chapter examines Leibniz's work on the breaking strength of rigid beams and its implications for his thinking about the metaphysical foundations of the material world. The third chapter revisits Leibniz's famous defense of the conservation of vis viva and proposes a novel account of the origin of Leibniz's mature natural philosophy. The fourth chapter takes up Leibniz's efforts to determine the shape of freely hanging chains--the so-called problem of the catenary--and shows how that work provides an illuminating model for his thinking about the teleological structure of wills. Finally, the fifth chapter uses Leibniz's derivation of the path of quickest descent--his solution to the so-called problem of the Brachistochrone--and its historical context as a springboard for an exploration of the legacy of Leibniz's physics. The book closes with a brief discussion of the systematicity of Leibniz's thinking in philosophy and the natural sciences.
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Leibniz written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Publishing Company, 1962 [c1902]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Publishing Company, 1962 [c1902]. This book was released on 1902 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I flatter myself that I have learned something by following in the tracks of Plato and others, and have reached, in one way at least, the serene temples erected by the teachings of the wise. These temples are built on a foundation of general truths which do not depend on facts and yet, as I see it, form the key to the knowledge which passes judgment on facts...I have always striven to uncover the truth that lies buried under and dispersed among the various philosophical schools, and to bring it into harmony with itself."
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201323
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introductions to Leibniz's complex thought: Discourse on Metaphysics of 1686 and Monadology of 1714. These are supplemented with two essays of special interest to the student of modern philosophy, On the Ultimate Origination of Things of 1697 and the Preface to his New Essays of 1703-1705. The translations are taken from Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, edited and translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber (Hackett, 1989).
Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207647
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger's thought from the existential analysis of Being and Time to the overcoming of metaphysics in his later philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz's theory of logical judgment, Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted in a certain conception of Being. He explores the significance of Western logic as a system-building technical tool and as a cultural phenomenon that is centuries old.
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300051875
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book De Summa Rerum written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yale Leibniz is a series of books containing texts and translations of the works of G.W. Leibniz. The series is intended to produce neither a complete edition of Leibniz's writings nor a comprehensive selected works edition...The focus of the series is Leibniz's philosophical thought, but this is interpreted broadly enough to include not only his metaphysics and epistemology, but also his theology, his physics, and even aspects of his mathematics.
