A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz: With an Appendix of Leading PassagesRussell's first strictly philosophical work, this study remains one of the most important studies of Leibniz every published. It established an approach to studying philosophers of the past that emphasises the philosophical rather than the historical. |
Contents
THE CONCEPTION OF SUBSTANCE | 19 |
CHAPTER VII | 21 |
Are all propositions reducible to the subjectpredicate form? 12 | 31 |
The general trustworthiness of perception is a premiss | 34 |
The conception of force and the law of inertia | 40 |
Analytic and synthetic propositions 16 | 44 |
Against the vacuum | 46 |
CHAPTER V | 74 |
The vinculum substantiale 151 | 171 |
Four proofs allowed by Leibniz | 172 |
The second theory to be rejected 152 | 174 |
CHAPTER XIII | 175 |
101 | 176 |
The argument from the eternal truths | 177 |
Its weakness | 178 |
CHAPTER XIV | 180 |
CONTENTS | 75 |
CHAPTER XII | 76 |
Relations of monads to be henceforth considered 139 | 81 |
three forms of continuity maintained | 84 |
PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PAGE | 89 |
CHAPTER VI | 90 |
CHAPTER VIII | 120 |
CHAPTER X | 138 |
Body | 139 |
Outline of Leibnizs view | 140 |
The three classes of monads | 141 |
Leibnizs early views on this subject 122 | 147 |
Appetition 133 | 153 |
Perfection and clearness of perception 142 | 162 |
Materia prima as an element in each monad 144 | 164 |
Materia prima the source of finitude plurality and matter 145 | 167 |
What theory of knowledge means 160 | 181 |
Argument from the preestablished harmony | 183 |
Objections to this argument | 185 |
Inconsistencies resulting from Leibnizs belief in God | 186 |
The New Essays inconsistent with Leibnizs metaphysics 163 | 187 |
Definition 168 | 188 |
Gods goodness 189 | 209 |
CHAPTER XVI | 211 |
Freedom and determinism 191 | 214 |
Sin 196 | 216 |
three kinds of each 197 | 221 |
APPENDIX 205 | 223 |
The range of contingent judgments in Leibniz 25 | 228 |
Extension means repetition | 260 |
Motion is phenomenal though force is real | 302 |
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