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| Introductory Material | |
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| How to Use this Book | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Substance and Matter | |
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| Physics and Natural Science | |
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| The Metaphysics of Causation | |
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| The Union of Body and Mind | |
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| Humans, Animals, and their Minds | |
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| From God to the Best Possible World: Creation, Freedom, and the Community of Rational Minds | |
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| Leibniz: Life and Influence | |
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| The Texts Printed in this Edition | |
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| The Texts | |
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| Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) | |
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| Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-1687) | |
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| Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics (1694) | |
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| New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication, and of the Union which Exists between the Body and the Soul (1695) | |
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| Specimen Dynamicum: An Essay in Dynamics (1695) | |
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| Reply of M. S.F. to M. de L.B.Z. on his System of the Communication between Substances (1695) | |
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| Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections (1695) | |
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| Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances (1696) | |
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| Extract from a Letter Written by M. de Leibniz about his Philosophical Hypothesis (1696) | |
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| Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1697) | |
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| Leibniz's Comments on Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?) | |
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| A Letter to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System (1698) | |
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| Nature Itself (1698) | |
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| Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1702) | |
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| Leibniz's Comments on Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?) | |
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| Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article 'Rorarius', concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony (1702; published 1716) Harmony Contained in the Second Edition of the Critical Dictionary of M. Bayle (1702; published 1716) | |
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| Draft Letters from Leibniz to Bayle (1702) | |
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| Principles of Nature and Grace (1714) | |
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| Monadology (1714) | |
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| Notes, Bibliography, and Index | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |