By Catherine Wilson
This examine of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz provides a transparent photo of his philosophical improvement in the normal scheme of seventeenth-century normal philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's considering as he faced the main philosophical difficulties of his period. starting together with his curiosity in synthetic languages and calculi for evidence and discovery, the writer proceeds to an exam of Leibniz's early theories of topic and movement, to the phenomenalistic flip in his conception of substance and his next de-emphasis of logical determinism, and eventually to his doctrines of concord and optimization. particular realization is given to Leibniz's knowing of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke.
Wilson analyzes Leibniz's complicated reaction to the recent mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the rules on which it rested, and his go back to the earlier to find the assets for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the most important to an realizing not just of Leibniz's monadology but in addition of his perspectives at the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of exterior causal effect. a last bankruptcy considers the matter of Leibniz-reception within the post-Kantian period, and the trouble of coming to phrases with a metaphysics that isn't basically philosophically "critical" yet, even as, "compensatory."
Originally released in 1990.
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