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Leibniz's 'New System' - and associated contemporary texts (Paperback)
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Leibniz's 'New System' - and associated contemporary texts (Paperback)
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One of the greatest of modern philosophers, on a par with his
contemporary John Locke, Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646, died
in Hanover in 1716. He was a leading figure in European
intellectual circles, and the founder of the Academy of Berlin. His
strange, complex metaphysical system established him as the third
of the great 'Rationalists', after Descartes and Spinoza. Along
with the 'New System', his most famous philosophical works are the
Discourse of Metaphysics (1685) and Monadology (c.1713). He also
made important contributions to logic, mathematics, theology,
jurisprudence, and history. Gathered here for the first time are
all the key texts in a crucial debate in modern philosophy, centred
on Leibniz's famous 1695 essay, the `New System of the Nature of
Substances and their Communication'. In this classic essay Leibniz
introduced to a broad European readership the strikingly original
metaphysical ideas he had come to a decade earlier. His 'system'
became increasingly famous and drew him into discussion and
development of these ideas, both in public and in private, with a
variety of thinkers: Simon Foucher; Henri Basbage de Beauval;
Francois Lamy; Isaac Jacquelot; the Englishwoman Damaris Masham;
Pierre Desmaizeaux; Rene Joseph de Tournemine; and most notably the
great French philosopher and scholar Pierre Bayle.
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