By Donald Rutherford
This can be the main updated and finished interpretation of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). between its different virtues, it makes significant use of unpublished manuscript resources. The publication seeks to illustrate the systematic team spirit of Leibniz's inspiration, during which theodicy, ethics, metaphysics and normal philosophy cohere. the foremost, underlying thought of the procedure is the perception of nature as an order designed via God to maximise the possibilities for the workout of cause.
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