Philosophical Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm

Philosophical Essays (edition 1989)

by Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz, Roger Ariew, Garber

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Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work--letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions over a fifty-year period--heightens the challenge of preparing an edition of his writings in English translation from the French and Latin.… (more)

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Title:	Philosophical Essays
Authors:	Gottfried Wilhelm
Other authors:	Freiherr von Leibniz, Roger Ariew, Garber
Info:	Hackett Pub Co (1989), Hardcover, 366 pages
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Leibniz is an uneven reading experience for me. His principle of sufficient reason, effusive piety, and faith in compossibility are unfashionable at the least. His long digressions into subtle epistemological distinctions are completely uninteresting to me. BUT, Leibniz's exposition of the nature of monads is absolutely fascinating. Getting a view of this beautiful, multi-faceted concept was totally worth skipping around all the other stuff I found to be chaff. (

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schumacherrr | Feb 21, 2022 |

After reading this book, "Monadology" remains pretty much a "WTF" affair, as far as I'm concerned. I think I actually only really understood what Leibniz was getting at when I read Hegel's critique of him. (

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Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work--letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions over a fifty-year period--heightens the challenge of preparing an edition of his writings in English translation from the French and Latin.

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