Leibniz's metaphysics : its origins and development /

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Author / Creator:Mercer, Christia.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:xiii, 528 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4568480
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ISBN:0521403014
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-500) and indexes.

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505 0 0 |t References to Leibniz's works --  |t Introduction: first truths and half truths --  |g Pt. 1.  |t Metaphysics of Method --  |g 1.  |t Eclecticism and conciliation, 1661-68 --  |g 1.  |t A walk in the woods --  |g 2.  |t Method and metaphysics in the seventeenth century --  |g 3.  |t The woods revisited --  |g 4.  |t Leibniz's two-part method --  |g Pt. 2.  |t Metaphysics of Substance --  |g 2.  |t Aristotelian assumptions, 1668-69 --  |g 1.  |t Metaphysical and religious harmony --  |g 2.  |t The theological writings and Leibniz's Metaphysics of Substance --  |g 3.  |t Leibniz's Aristotelian assumptions --  |g 3.  |t Original conception of substance, 1669 --  |g 1.  |t Reformed philosophy --  |g 2.  |t Letter to Thomasius --  |g 3.  |t Conciliation and the Metaphysics of Substance --  |g 4.  |t Second conception of substance, 1669-early 1671 --  |g 1.  |t Substantial difficulties --  |g 2.  |t Letter to Thomasius revised --  |g 3.  |t Development of a perfect union --  |g 4.  |t Development of a conception of mind and activity --  |g 5.  |t Second conception of substance --  |g Pt. 3.  |t Metaphysics of Divinity --  |g 5.  |t Platonist Assumptions --  |g 1.  |t Leibniz and Platonism --  |g 2.  |t The Supreme Being: its unity, self-sufficiency, perfection --  |g 3.  |t Plenitude --  |g 4.  |t The Supreme Being as transcendent and immanent, as unity and multiplicity --  |g 5.  |t Reflective harmony and sympathy --  |g 6.  |t Ideas and knowledge --  |g 7.  |t Matter and the hierarchy of being --  |g 8.  |t Platonism in Leipzig --  |g 6.  |t Metaphysics of Divinity, 1668-early 1671 --  |g 1.  |t Universal harmony --  |g 2.  |t Mind --  |g 3.  |t Creation stories, 1668-early 1671 --  |g 4.  |t Platonist epistemology --  |g 5.  |t Leibniz's original Platonism --  |g Pt. 4.  |t Metaphysics --  |g 7.  |t Matter, passivity, and panorganic vitalism, 1670-71 --  |g 1.  |t Material difficulties --  |g 2.  |t Material progress --  |g 3.  |t From passivity to vitality --  |g 4.  |t Other evidence --  |g 8.  |t Phenomenalism and Preestablished Harmony, 1671 --  |g 1.  |t Gap between the apparent and the real --  |g 2.  |t Thinking about Preestablished Harmony --  |g 3.  |t Metaphysical cohesion and Preestablished and Harmony --  |g 4.  |t Preestablished Harmony and the Principle of Sufficient Reason --  |g 9.  |t Preestablished Harmony, late 1671-early 1672 --  |g 1.  |t Studies on the universal characteristic --  |g 2.  |t Metaphysics of Studies on the universal characteristic --  |g 3.  |t Method and metaphysics, 1670-1672 --  |g 10.  |t Final steps toward the mature philosophy, 1672-79 --  |g 1.  |t Early Paris years, 1672-73 --  |g 2.  |t Substance and plenitude, 1676 --  |g 3.  |t Substance and divinity, 1676 --  |g 4.  |t Completeness and truth, 1676-79 --  |g 5.  |t Matters of interpretation.  |t Conclusion: the truth behind the First truths --  |g App. I.  |t (Not exactly) First truths --  |g App. II.  |t Leibniz's original assumptions. 
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