A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz: With an Appendix of Leading Passages

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Spokesman Books, 2008 - History - 311 pages
Russell'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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.

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