Leibniz and the “Modern” in Modern Philosophy

摘要: I began this book by stating that its main thesis would be to demonstrate the persistence in Leibniz’s mature philosophy of his premodern theory individuals and principle their individuation, showing how both have roots later or “second” scholastic sources earliest philosophy. The most influential these, negatively, were surely Scotists, while influential, positively, equally nominalists, chief among them Suarez. submit been able detail. In final chapter want explore (a) some implications reading Leibniz for scholarship on Leibniz, (b) we should understand a “modern” philosopher, (c) modern “postmodern” cultural analysis understood. These topics arise naturally from claim philosophical ideas methods persist — indeed, shape fundamentally