Leibniz's Metaphysics : A Historical and Comparative Study /

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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. Beg...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy ; 2422
Temas:
First philosophy.
Metaphysics > History > 17th century.
Metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
A History of Western Philosophy.
A priori and a posteriori.
Analogy.
Anti-realism.
Antinomy.
Antithesis.
Aphorism.
Aristotle.
Athanasius Kircher.
Atheism.
Atomism.
Baruch Spinoza.
Cambridge Platonists.
Cartesianism.
Christian mortalism.
Circular reasoning.
Conatus.
Concept.
Consciousness.
Contingency (philosophy).
Contradiction.
Conventionalism.
Critical philosophy.
Critique of Pure Reason.
Critique.
David Hume.
Eclecticism.
Erudition.
Ex nihilo.
Existence of God.
Explanation.
Falsity.
Fine-tuning.
First principle.
Freethought.
God.
Good and evil.
Horror vacui (physics).
Hypothesis.
Idealism.
Identity and change.
Identity of indiscernibles.
Impenetrability.
Infinite regress.
Infinitesimal.
Intuitionism.
Logic.
Logical Investigations (Husserl).
Lullism.
Luminiferous aether.
Materialism.
Metempsychosis.
Monadology.
Moral absolutism.
Multitude.
Natural theology.
Naturalness (physics).
Necessitarianism.
New Essays on Human Understanding.
Occam's razor.
Occasionalism.
Ontological argument.
Pelagianism.
Pessimism.
Phenomenalism.
Phenomenon.
Philosopher.
Philosophical language.
Philosophical progress.
Philosophy.
Pre-established harmony.
Predestination.
Primitive notion.
Problem of evil.
Rationalism.
Reality.
Reason.
Religion.
Scholasticism.
Self-deception.
Solipsism.
Spinozism.
State of nature.
Superiority (short story).
Tabula rasa.
The Assayer.
The Mind of God.
The Philosopher.
The Soul of the World.
Theodicy.
Theology.
Theory of Forms.
Theory.
Thought.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
Truth.
Two Treatises of Government.
Unobservable.
Voluntarism (philosophy).
Zeno's paradoxes.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. language, logic, encyclopedia
  • II. First philosophy
  • III. The Discourse on Metaphysics
  • IV. Metaphysical foundations for natural science
  • V. Atom, substance, soul
  • VI. Leibniz's theories of space, motion, and gravity
  • VII. Experience and the self: the New Essays
  • VIII. The problem of theodicy
  • IX. Critical and compensatory metaphysics
  • Works consulted
  • Index

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