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Leibniz a guide for the perplexed

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  Narrator: Multiple Readers
  Publisher:

  Crane Library, 2015

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• Author: Perkins, Franklin
  Date:

  Issued

  2013
  Contents:

  • READING LEIBNIZ. Context of Leibniz's philosophy
  • Difficulties of reading Leibniz
  • Using this book
  • GOD AND THE BEST POSSIBLE WORLD. Two principles of knowledge
  • The existence of god
  • The nature of God
  • The best of all possible worlds
  • SUBSTANCES. Substance in early modern philosophy
  • The simplicity and unity of substance in Leibniz
  • Substances as points of view on the universe
  • Interaction and pre-established harmony
  • RATIONAL MINDS. Minute perceptions and levels of awareness
  • Necessary truths and innate ideas
  • Knowledge
  • identity and choice
  • LEIBNIZ'S PHILOSOPHY AND LEIBNIZ AS PHILOSOPHER .
  Subject(s): Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm | Philosophy
  Original Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2007
  Language(s): English