Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Leibniz: Discourse on metaphysics
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A complex route leads to the Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), considered the first almost perfect exposition (but unknown until 1846) of Leibnite's doctrine. To rehabilitate “substantial forms”, we must in fact deploy a philosophy of conciliation which encourages us to read the concepts of the Ancients under the results of the Moderns. The “Cartesian sect” does not emerge unscathed from this quest at the end of whic…
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Leibniz: New essays on human understanding
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The imaginary dialogue of Théophile and Philathèle in the New Essays on Human Understanding (1765) is the substitute for a dialogue that never took place: that of Leibniz with Locke. In this work published posthumously, the philosopher of the monad makes the alternating voices of empiricism and rationalism heard. The fundamental question that Locke asks himself is that of the powers of knowledge: the wisdom of man …
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Leibniz: Principles of nature and grace founded in reason
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Leibniz's philosophy posed a thousand questions to his contemporaries. On the essentials: the notions of monad, force and matter, the union of the soul with its body, the problem of Evil – and on the validity of the solutions proposed by pre-established harmony. Hence the writing, in 1714, two years before his death, of two systematic abridgements of his philosophy, the famous Monadology and the exemplary Principles…
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