Leibniz's 'New System' and Associated Contemporary Texts

Name: Leibniz's 'New System' and Associated Contemporary Texts
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ISBN: 9780198248460

ISBN-10: 0198248466

ISBN-13: 9780198248460

Edition: 1997

Authors: R. S. Woolhouse, Richard Francks, R. S. Woolhouse, R. S. Woolhouse, Richard Francks

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This volume gathers together for the first time are all the key texts in a crucial debate in modern philosophy, centered on Leibniz's famous 1695 essay, the "New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication," in which he introduced his strikingly original theory of metaphysics. His "system" became increasingly famous and drew him into discussion and development of these ideas, both in public and in private, with a variety of thinkers, most notably the great French philosopher Pierre Bayle. Woolhouse's and Francks's new English edition gives the only full representation of this debate, and will therefore be essential reading for anyone who wishes to gain a proper understanding…

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Notes on Conventions


Abbreviations



The 'New System of the Nature of Substances'


Introduction



Leibniz: Letter to Bossuet, Hanover, 2 July 1694



Leibniz: 'Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics and Particularly on the Nature of Substance Explained by Force' (1694)



Leibniz: Letter to Bossuet, Hanover, Dated 3 July 169496



Leibniz: Letter to Foucher, 1686



Leibniz and Simon Foucher



Leibniz and Henri Basnage De Beauval



Leibniz and Henri Basnage De Beauval



Leibniz: 'Extract from a Letter by M. Leibniz About His Philosophical Hypothesis . . .', November 1696 ('third Explanation of the New System')


Introduction



Leibniz and Pierre Bayle


[bayle's Notes]


Pb2. Leibniz: Unpublished Comments on Bayle's Note H (dictionary, 1702. Edn.), 1705?



Leibniz and Franï¿½ois Lamy


Introduction


[lamy's Notes]



Leibniz and Isaac Jaquelot


Introduction



Leibniz: Letter to Jaquelot, Berlin, 22 March 1703



Leibniz and Damaris Masham


Introduction



Leibniz: Letter to Sophie Charlotte, Hanover, 8 May 1704



Leibniz and Pierre Desmaizeaux


Introduction



Desmaizeaux: Preface (dated 27 October 1719) to Recueil (1720)


[desmaizeaux's Note]



Desmaizeaux: Preface (dated 27 October 1719) to Recueil (1720)



Desmaizeaux: 'Letter to M. L'Abbï¿½ Conti, Containing the Explanation of a Passage from Hippocrates' (1718; Pub. 1720)



Leibniz: Letter to Samuel Masson, 21 August 1716



Leibniz and Renï¿½ Joseph De Tournemine


Introduction


Index