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The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and
letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways:
first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the
full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual
powers; second, by inviting a fresher approach to his intellectual
growth and a clearer perception of the internal strains in his
thinking, through a chronological arrangement. Much confusion has
arisen in the past through a neglect of the develop ment of
Leibniz's ideas, and Couturat's impressive plea, in his edition of
the Opuscu/es et fragments (p. xii), for such an arrangement is
valid even for incomplete editions. The beginning student will do
well, however, to read the maturer writings of Parts II, III, and
IV first, leaving Part I, from a period too largely neglected by
Leibniz criticism, for a later study of the still obscure sources
and motives of his thought. The Introduction aims primarily to
provide cultural orientation and an exposition of the structure and
the underlying assumptions of the philosophical system rather than
a critical evaluation. I hope that together with the notes and the
Index, it will provide those aids to the understanding which the
originality of Leibniz's scientific, ethical, and metaphysical
efforts deserve."
This volume contains papers that represent Leibniz's early
thoughts on the problem of evil, centering on a dialogue, the
Confessio philosophi, in which he formulates a general account of
God's relation to sin and evil that becomes a fixture in his
thinking.
How can God be understood to be the ultimate cause, asks
Leibniz, without God being considered as the author of sin, a
conclusion incompatible with God's holiness?
Leibniz's attempts to justify the way of God to humans lead him
to deep discussion of related topics: the nature of free choice,
the problems of necessitarianism and fatalism, the nature of divine
justice and holiness. All but one of the writings presented here
are available in English for the first time.
This volume is a critical edition of the ten-year correspondence
(1706-1716) between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of Europe's most
influential early modern thinkers, and Bartholomew Des Bosses, a
Jesuit theologian who was keen to bring together Leibniz's
philosophy and the Aristotelian philosophy and religious doctrines
accepted by his order. The letters offer crucial insights into
Leibniz's final metaphysics and into the intellectual life of the
eighteenth century.
Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford present seventy-one of
Leibniz's and Des Bosses's letters in the original Latin and in
careful English translation. Few of the letters have been
translated into English before. The editors also provide extensive
annotations, deletions, and marginalia from Leibniz's various
drafts, and a substantial introduction setting the context for the
correspondence and analyzing the main philosophical issues.
A selection translated and edited with an introduction by G.H.R.
Parkinson.
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Writing on China (Paperback)
G. W. Leibniz; Volume editing by Daniel J. Cook, Henry Rosemont; Edited by Henry Rosemont Jr
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The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and
letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways:
first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the
full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual
powers; second, by inviting a fresher approach to his intellectual
growth and a clearer perception of the internal strains in his
thinking, through a chronological arrangement. Much confusion has
arisen in the past through a neglect of the develop ment of
Leibniz's ideas, and Couturat's impressive plea, in his edition of
the Opuscu/es et fragments (p. xii), for such an arrangement is
valid even for incomplete editions. The beginning student will do
well, however, to read the maturer writings of Parts II, III, and
IV first, leaving Part I, from a period too largely neglected by
Leibniz criticism, for a later study of the still obscure sources
and motives of his thought. The Introduction aims primarily to
provide cultural orientation and an exposition of the structure and
the underlying assumptions of the philosophical system rather than
a critical evaluation. I hope that together with the notes and the
Index, it will provide those aids to the understanding which the
originality of Leibniz's scientific, ethical, and metaphysical
efforts deserve."
For this new edition, Roger Ariew has adapted Samuel Clarke's
edition of 1717, modernizing it to reflect contemporary English
usage. Ariew's introduction places the correspondence in historical
context and discusses the vibrant philosophical climate of the
times. Appendices provide those selections from the works of Newton
that Clarke frequently refers to in the correspondence. A
bibliography is also included.
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Philosophical Texts (Paperback)
G. W. Leibniz; Edited by R. S. Woolhouse, Richard Francks; Introduction by R. S. Woolhouse
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This volume collects together some of Leibniz's most important texts including the Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), the New System (1695), and the Monadology (1714). Also included are critical reactions to the works by some of Leibniz's contemporaries: Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Bayle, and Simon Foucher, together with Leibniz's responses. The texts are supplemented by a substantial editorial introduction, summaries of each of the texts, extensive endnotes, and full bibliography, making this an invaluable introduction to Leibniz's philosophy.
This book gathers together for the first time an important body of
texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher
and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them
previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained attempt on a
problem whose solution was crucial to the development of his
thought, that of the composition of the continuum. The volume
begins with excerpts from Leibniz's Paris writings, in which he
tackles such problems as whether the infinite division of matter
entails "perfect points," whether matter and space can be regarded
as true wholes, whether motion is truly continuous, and the nature
of body and substance. Comprising the second section is Pacidius
Philalethi, Leibniz's brilliant dialogue of late 1676 on the
problem of the continuity of motion. In the selections of the final
section, from his Hanover writings of 1677-1686, Leibniz abandons
his earlier transcreationism and atomism in favor of the theory of
corporeal substance, where the reality of body and motion is
founded in substantial form or force. Leibniz's texts (one in
French, the rest in Latin) are presented with facing-page English
translations, together with an introduction, notes, appendixes
containing related excerpts from earlier works by Leibniz and his
predecessors, and a valuable glossary detailing important terms and
their translations.
This is an abridgement of the complete translation of the New
Essays, first published in 1981, designed for use as a study text.
The material extraneous to philosophy - more than a third of the
original - and the glossary of notes have been cut and a
philosophical introduction and bibliography of work on Leibniz have
been provided by the translators. The marginal pagination has been
retained for ease of cross-reference to the full edition. The work
itself is an acknowledged philosophical classic, in which Leibniz
argues point by point with Locke's Essay Concerning Human
Understanding. The result is the single most important
confrontation between the philosophical traditions of rationalism
and empiricism. It makes an extremely suitable focus for the study
of Leibniz's thought and of those two traditions in relation to one
another.
Challenging Locke's views in Essays on Human Understanding chapter by chapter, Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussion of the ideas and institutions of the age make this work a fascinating and valuable document in the history of ideas.
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