Leibniz
著者
書誌事項
Leibniz
(Classic thinkers)
Polity, 2014
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- : hardback
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注記
Bibliography: p. [208]-215
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly idealism is at odds with all this bustling practical activity.
In this book Richard. T. W. Arthur offers a fresh reading of Leibniz's philosophy, clearly situating it in its scientific, political and theological contexts. He argues that Leibniz aimed to provide an improved foundation for the mechanical philosophy based on a new kind of universal language. His contributions to natural philosophy are an integral part of this programme, which his metaphysics, dynamics and organic philosophy were designed to support. Rather than denying that substances really exist in space and time, as the idealist reading proposes, Leibniz sought to provide a deeper understanding of substance and body, and a correct understanding of space as an order of situations and time as an order of successive things.
This lively and approachable book will appeal to students of philosophy, as well as anyone seeking a stimulating introduction to Leibniz's thought and its continuing relevance.
目次
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Logic, language and the Encyclopaedia project
Chapter 3: Natural philosophy and the science of life
Chapter 4: Mathematical philosophy
Chapter 5: The reform of metaphysics
Chapter 6: Dynamics: the physics and metaphysics of action
Chapter 7: The philosophy of space and time
Chapter 8: Morals and politics
Chapter 9: Leibnizian posterity
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