This book, first published in 1975, provides critical and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz. C.D. Broad was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge from 1933 to 1953 and this book is based on his undergraduate lectures on Leibniz. Broad died in 1971 and Dr Lewy has since edited the book for publication. Leibniz is, of course, recognized as a major figure in all courses in the history of philosophy, but he has perhaps been less well served by textbook writers than most other philosophers. Broad has provided here a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. It is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system; it provides a masterful introduction to the subject.
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Broad has provided a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey of Leibniz which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. This book is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system.
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Very good, interesting, but analytical (no surprise I guess),
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Broad's analysis of Leibniz's philosophy is very well written, cogent, thoughtful and interesting, but the reader can certainly tell he was a British philosopher writing in the 1950s, as large parts of the work are analytical/logical in nature. And that's fine, he's using the technique in a thoughtful rather than reductive/destructive way, and read along with Woolhouse's "Starting with Leibniz" (an excellent "straight philosophical" intro) I find Broad provides some very helpful insights. It is also a valuable look at what a thoughtful use of a form of "logical positivist"-type analysis can do. Well worth the price!
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