The Discourse on Metaphysics (French: Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (redirect from Leibniz's metaphysics)
ISBN 978-1515243915. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Discourse on Metaphysics. The Rationalists: Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method, Meditations. N.Y.: Dolphin., n...
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Discourse on Inequality or Second Discourse, a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau written in 1754 Discourse on Metaphysics, a short treatise written by...
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Momentum (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
motion, and vis for force. In 1686, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in Discourse on Metaphysics, gave an argument against Descartes' construction of the conservation...
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Best of all possible worlds (category Concepts in metaphysics)
mentions God's goodness, and its foundation on tradition, more at length in chapter 3 of his Discourse on Metaphysics: I think that one acts imperfectly if...
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Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2018. Leibniz, Gottfried (1880). "Discourse on metaphysics". Die philosophischen schriften...
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Latin-language text Discourse on Metaphysics. translated by G. R. Montgomery. Strickland Translation "Mathematical Treasure: Leibniz's Papers on Calculus - Differential...
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Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-24. Retrieved 13 April 2018. Leibniz, Gottfried (1880). "Discourse on metaphysics". Die philosophischen schriften...
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Philosophers engaged in metaphysics are called metaphysicians or metaphysicists. Outside the academic discourse, the term metaphysics is sometimes used in...
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Baruch Spinoza (redirect from Metaphysics of Baruch Spinoza)
Spinoza's philosophy spans nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of...
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Monad (philosophy) (category Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics)
August 2022. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von (2005). Discourse on metaphysics, and the monadology. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486443102...
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Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology Daniel Defoe...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding. 1690. Leibniz, Gottfried. Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, edited and translated by R. N. D. Martin...
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Primary–secondary quality distinction (category Concepts in metaphysics)
Leibniz was an early critic of the distinction, writing in his 1686 Discourse on Metaphysics that "[i]t is even possible to demonstrate that the ideas of size...
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Substantial form (category Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics)
are primitive active forces and are required for his metaphysics. In the Discourse on Metaphysics (§10): [...] the belief in substantial forms has a certain...
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Patriarcha, 1680 Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, 1686 Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics, 1688 John Locke, Two Treatises of Government...
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Demonstrata (see: Spinozism, Philosophy of Spinoza) 1686 Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics 1687 Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical...
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Feminist metaphysics aims to question how inquiries and answers in the field of metaphysics have supported sexism. Feminist metaphysics overlaps with fields...
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A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et...
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ISBN 978-0-631-20604-0. Leibniz, Gottfried (1686). Discourse on Metaphysics. Leibniz, Gottfried (1989) [1702(?)]. "Reflections on the Common Concept of Justice". In Leroy...
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Ontology (redirect from Metaphysics Ontology)
general metaphysics, which is to be distinguished from special metaphysics focused on more specific subject matters, like God, mind, and value. A different...
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Antoine Arnauld (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Wilhelm Leibniz, regarding the latter's views detailed in his "Discourse on Metaphysics" (1686). Arnauld died, aged 82, in Brussels. Popular record for...
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presence. Having described a pattern—denouncing metaphysics while relying on it—in discourses about metaphysics, Derrida suggests consideration of the same...
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Civil discourse is the practice of deliberating about matters of public concern in a way that seeks to expand knowledge and promote understanding. The...
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Mind–body problem (category Metaphysics of mind)
consists only of that mind. Leibniz seems to admit this in his Discourse on Metaphysics, section 14. However, he claims that his principle of harmony,...
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views De Arte Combinatoria Discourse on Metaphysics, (text at wikisource) Monadology, (text at wikisource) New Essays on Human Understanding Nova Methodus...
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Supernatural (redirect from Metaphysics (beyond natural laws))
extraordinary". Obsolete uses include "of, relating to, or dealing with metaphysics". As a noun, the term can mean "a supernatural being", with a particularly...
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The Metaphysics of Morals (‹See Tfd›German: Die Metaphysik der Sitten) is a 1797 work of political and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is also Kant's...
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(Postmodernism) Discordianism Discourse Discourse ethics Discourse on Inequality Discourse on Metaphysics Discourse on the Method Discourses of Epictetus Discovery...
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realized". Leibniz gave another response to the paradox in §6 of Discourse on Metaphysics: "That God does nothing which is not orderly, and that it is not...
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