Leibniz New Essays On Human Understanding

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In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussions of the ideas and institutions of the age make this a fascinating and valuable document in the history of ideas. The work was originally written in French, and the version by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett, based on the only reliable French edition (published in 1962), first appeared in 1981 and has become the standard English translation. It has been thoroughly revised for this series and provided with a new and longer introduction, a chronology on Leibniz's life and career and a guide to further reading.

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Genre : Mathematics
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1996-11-07
File : 528 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521576601


New Essays On Human Understanding Abridged Edition

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An extremely suitable focus for the study of Leibniz's thought and of the traditions of rationalism and empiricism in relation to one another.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1982-10-07
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521285399


New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

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Genre : Comprehension
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
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Release : 1896
File : 884 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951001529093G


Leibniz S New Essays Concerning The Human Understanding

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New Essays on Human Understanding is a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal by Gottfried Leibniz of John Locke's major work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. It was finished in 1704 but Locke's death was the cause alleged by Leibniz to withhold its publication. The book appeared some sixty years later. Like many philosophical works of the time, it is written in dialogue form. The two speakers in the book are Theophilus, who represents the views of Leibniz, and Philalethes, who represents those of Locke. The famous rebuttal to the empiricist thesis about the provenance of ideas appears at the beginning of Book II: "Nothing is in the mind without being first in the senses, except for the mind itself". All of Locke's major arguments against innate ideas are criticized at length by Leibniz, who defends an extreme view of innate cognition, according to which all thoughts and actions of the soul are innate. In addition to his discussion of innate ideas, Leibniz offers penetrating critiques of Locke's views on personal identity, free will, mind-body dualism, language, necessary truth, and Locke's attempted proof of the existence of God.

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Genre : Knowledge, Theory of
Author : John Dewey
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Release : 1888
File : 304 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015071638345


An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : John Locke
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Release : 1996-09-15
File : 418 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781603844550


The Routledge Guidebook To Locke S Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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The Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding introduces the major themes in Locke's great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : E. Jonathan Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013
File : 226 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780415664776


Leibniz Mysticism And Religion

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Seven essays, from a November 1994 conference in Los Angeles, aspire to stamp out once and for all the notion that Kant solved the problem of skepticism. Commemorating C. F. Staudlin, the first historian of skepticism (1794), they document the continuing vitality of a skeptical tradition in Germany, France, and Britain. They consider the role of skepticism in pure philosophy itself, but also in politics; science; and social issues such as smallpox inoculation, suicide, and capital punishment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Genre : History
Author : A.P. Coudert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 1998-10-31
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0792352238


Condillac Essay On The Origin Of Human Knowledge

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A highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2001-09-06
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521585767


Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy

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Volume five of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Edward Craig
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Release : 1998
File : 890 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415187109


New Essays On Leibniz S Theodicy

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This volume offers a reappraisal of a classic text of European philosophy, Leibniz's 'Theodicy'. New essays from leading scholars open a window on the historical context of the work and give close attention to its subtle and enduring philosophical arguments.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Larry M. Jorgensen
Publisher :
Release : 2014
File : 289 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199660032