Leibniz's Metaphysics Its Origins and Development

Name: Leibniz's Metaphysics Its Origins and Development
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ISBN: 9780521029926

ISBN-10: 0521029929

ISBN-13: 9780521029926

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christia Mercer

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Christia Mercer has exposed for the first time the underlying doctrines of Leibniz's philosophy. By analyzing Leibniz's early works she demonstrates that the metaphysics of pre-established harmony developed many years earlier than previously believed and for reasons that have not been understood. A much deeper understanding of some of Leibniz's key doctrines emerges. Christia Mercer's study will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about early modern philosophy and science. This is a very significant contribution to the history of early modern philosophy that will be of special importance to philosophers, historians of ideas, historians of science and those in religious…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


References to Leibniz's works


Introduction: first truths and half truths



Metaphysics of Method



Eclecticism and conciliation, 1661ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½68



Metaphysics of Substance



Aristotelian assumptions, 1668ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½69



Original conception of substance, 1669



Second conception of substance, 1669ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½early 1671



Metaphysics of Divinity



Platonist assumptions



Metaphysics of divinity, 1668ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½early 1671



Metaphysics



Matter, passivity, and panorganic vitalism 1670ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½71



Phenomenalism and preestablished harmony, 1671



Preestablished harmony, late 1671ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½early 1672



Final steps toward the mature philosophy, 1672ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½79


Conclusion: the truth behind the First truths


Appendices


Bibliography


Index locorum


Index