[PDF] Leibniz And His Correspondents eBook

Author : Paul Lodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139452231

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Unlike most of the other great philosophers Leibniz never wrote a magnum opus, so his philosophical correspondence is essential for an understanding of his views. This collection of essays by pre-eminent figures in the field of Leibniz scholarship is a most thorough account of Leibniz's philosophical correspondencee. It both illuminates Leibniz's philosophical views and pays due attention to the dialectical context in which the relevant passages from the letters occur. The result is a book of enormous value to all serious students of early-modern philosophy and the history of ideas.

Author : G. W. Leibniz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300138091

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This volume is a critical edition of the ten-year correspondence (1706-1716) between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of Europe's most influential early modern thinkers, and Bartholomew Des Bosses, a Jesuit theologian who was keen to bring together Leibniz's philosophy and the Aristotelian philosophy and religious doctrines accepted by his order. The letters offer crucial insights into Leibniz's final metaphysics and into the intellectual life of the eighteenth century.Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford present 71 of Leibniz's and Des Bosses' letters in the original Latin and in careful English translation. Few of the letters have been translated into English before. The editors also provide extensive annotations, deletions, and marginalia from Leibniz's various drafts, and a substantial introduction setting the context for the correspondence and analysing the main philosophical issues.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872205246

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For this new edition, Roger Ariew has adapted Samuel Clarke's edition of 1717, modernizing it to reflect contemporary English usage. Ariew's introduction places the correspondence in historical context and discusses the vibrant philosophical climate of the times. Appendices provide those selections from the works of Newton that Clarke frequently refers to in the correspondence. A bibliography is also included.

Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139826026

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton's thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, his research in optics, and his contributions to mathematics, but also his more clandestine investigations into alchemy, theology, and prophecy, which have sometimes been overshadowed by his mathematical and scientific interests.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher :
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300108231

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This volume is a critical edition of the eight-year correspondence (1698–1706) between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Burcher de Volder, professor of philosophy and mathematics at Leiden University. Containing the surviving correspondence between Leibniz and De Volder, the volume also presents a generous selection from the letters between Leibniz and his friend Johann Bernoulli, through whose intercession the correspondence began. Bernoulli acted as intermediary throughout, and the often candid discussions between Leibniz and Bernoulli provide illuminating background to the correspondence proper. Each of the selections appears both in the original Latin and in English translation.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521367691

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The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.

Author : Samuel Clarke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780719006692

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In 1715 the German philosopher Leibniz warned his friend the Princess of Wales of the dangers posed to religion by Newton's ideas. This book presents extracts from Leibniz's letters to Newtonian scientist Samuel Clarke.

Author : Ezio Vailati
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 1997
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 0195113993

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The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke (1715-??) was probably the most famous and influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century. It focused on the clash between the Newtonian and Leibnizian world systems, involving disputes in physics, theology, and metaphysics. The letters ranged over an extraordinary array of topics: divine immensity and eternity, the relation of God to the world, the soul and its relation to the body, free will, space and time, the nature of miracles, the nature of matter, the existence of atoms and the void, the size of the universe, and the nature of motive force. Vailati's book provides a comprehensive overview and commentary on this important body of letters. He not only identifies and evaluates the various arguments, but situates the views advanced by the correspondents in the context of their principal writings.