Leibniz and the rational order of nature
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Leibniz and the rational order of nature
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-296) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Amongst its other virtues, it makes considerable use of unpublished manuscript sources. The book seeks to demonstrate the systematic unity of Leibniz's thought, in which theodicy, ethics, metaphysics and natural philosophy cohere. The key, underlying idea of the system is the conception of nature as an order designed by God to maximise the opportunities for the exercise of reason. From this idea emerges the view that this world is the best of all possible worlds, and an ethical ideal in which the well-being of human beings is promoted through the gradual extension of intellectual enlightenment.
目次
- Part I. Theodicy: 1. The vindication of divine justice
- 2. The maximisation of perfection and harmony
- 3. Happiness and virtue in the best of all possible worlds
- Part II. First philosophy: 4. Metaphysics and its method
- 5. The categories of thought and being
- 6. Substance
- Part III. Nature: 7. Modelling the best of all possible worlds
- 8. Monads, matter, and organisms
- 9. Dynamics and the reality of matter
- 10. Corporeal substance and the union of soul body.
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