The Monad is a simple substance that enters into composites; simple, without parts, indivisible, and truly the atoms…
Leibniz begins the Monadology by defining the monad as a simple substance without parts, the fundamental unit of…
Leibniz rebuts Locke's tabula rasa by arguing the mind is like veined marble, containing innate principles that enable…
Leibniz defends his metaphysics of individual substance and the complete concept in a letter to theologian Antoine Arnauld.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz systematically dismantles the metaphysical foundations of Spinoza's Ethics in a newly discovered manuscript, attacking its…
Leibniz begins his metaphysical system by defining God as an absolutely perfect being, from which he derives the…
Leibniz declares that jurisprudence suffers from fundamental disorder, burying students under undigested laws and conflicting opinions without systematic
Leibniz argues that the Earth underwent a long series of transformations governed by physical laws, with its history…
Leibniz argues that reason and revealed faith cannot ultimately contradict one another, since God is the author of…
Leibniz's philosophy is built upon the Principle of Contradiction and the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
Leibniz establishes the methodological principles governing the inquiry into the relation between reason and faith and the problem…
Leibniz envisions a Universal Encyclopedia organizing all human knowledge from fundamental simple ideas, enabling rational calculation to settle…
Leibniz explores the metaphysical crisis arising from the infinite divisibility of matter and the confusion between the actual…
The Monad is nothing but a simple substance, which enters into composites—simple, meaning without parts.
Leibniz presents philosophy as a universal science, a unified system of truth comprehending metaphysics, physics, mathematics, jurisprudence, and…
