Christia Mercer has exposed for the first time the underlying doctrines of Leibniz's philosophy. By analyzing Leibniz's early works she demonstrates that the metaphysics of pre-established harmony developed many years earlier than previously believed and for reasons that have not been understood. A much deeper understanding of some of Leibniz's key doctrines emerges. Christia Mercer's study will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about early modern philosophy and science. This is a very significant contribution to the history of early modern philosophy that will be of special importance to philosophers, historians of ideas, historians of science and those in religious studies.
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"...a closely argued interpretation of the early Leibniz that draws on a wide range of materials in and beyond the Leibnizian corpus. ...this work will lead to a substantial reconfiguring of our understanding of the early Leibniz." The Philosophical Review
"...Mercer's book constitutes an impressive and outspoken piece of research which forcefully promotes and advances in the Anglo-American world a new way of approaching the history of philosophy." Journal of the History of Philosophy
"This is a bold book, one that radically challenges the accepted views of Leibniz and his development: it will change how we understand his mature philosophy. Though it will be controversial, her position is one that must be reckoned with. Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development will not be ignored; it will be read and passionately debated for years to come." Daniel Garber, University of Chicago
"...Mercer's book constitutes an impressive and outspoken piece of research which forcefully promotes and advances in the Anglo-American world a new way of approaching the history of philosophy." Journal of the History of Philosophy
"This is a bold book, one that radically challenges the accepted views of Leibniz and his development: it will change how we understand his mature philosophy. Though it will be controversial, her position is one that must be reckoned with. Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development will not be ignored; it will be read and passionately debated for years to come." Daniel Garber, University of Chicago
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Christia Mercer has exposed for the first time the underlying doctrines of Leibniz's philosophy. By analyzing Leibniz's early works she demonstrates that the metaphysics of pre-established harmony developed many years earlier than previously believed and for reasons which have not been understood. A much deeper understanding of some of Leibniz's key doctrines emerges. Christia Mercer's study will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about early modern philosophy and science. This is a very significant contribution to the history of early modern philosophy that will be of special importance to philosophers, historians of ideas, historians of science and those in religious studies.
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In the spring of 1661, at the age of fourteen, Leibniz began his university studies in Leipzig, where he came under the influence of the well-known German humanist, Jakob Thomasius. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
body qua matter, qua substantial form, plete ratio, emanative causation, seminal rationes, emanative source, emanative activity, première philosophic, product instantiates, conciliatory eclecticism, active principle acts, material passivity, conciliatory eclectics, concurrent mind, concurring mind, help with this idea, intersubstantial causation, emanative power, impressing motion, core metaphysics, creatures instantiate, corporeal features, subordinate substances, reformed philosophy, complete concept theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Preestablished Harmony, Johann Friedrich, Complete-Ratio Phenomenalism, Prearranged Diffusion Relation, Complete-Ratio Theory of Substance, Substantial Form Assumption, New Physical Hypothesis, Passive Principle Assumption, Reality Problem, Creaturely Inferiority Complex, Principle of Self-Sufficiency, Theory of Abstract Motion, Principle of Substantial Self-Sufficiency, Problem of Cohesion, Metaphysics of Method, Jakob Thomasius, Principle of Substantial Activity, Leibniz's Aristotelian, Rhetoric of Attraction, Principle of Harmonized Plenitude, Leibniz's Platonist, Renaissance Philosophy, Theory of Emanative Causation, Thomasius of April, Council of Trent New!
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In the spring of 1661, at the age of fourteen, Leibniz began his university studies in Leipzig, where he came under the influence of the well-known German humanist, Jakob Thomasius. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
body qua matter, qua substantial form, plete ratio, emanative causation, seminal rationes, emanative source, emanative activity, première philosophic, product instantiates, conciliatory eclecticism, active principle acts, material passivity, conciliatory eclectics, concurrent mind, concurring mind, help with this idea, intersubstantial causation, emanative power, impressing motion, core metaphysics, creatures instantiate, corporeal features, subordinate substances, reformed philosophy, complete concept theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Preestablished Harmony, Johann Friedrich, Complete-Ratio Phenomenalism, Prearranged Diffusion Relation, Complete-Ratio Theory of Substance, Substantial Form Assumption, New Physical Hypothesis, Passive Principle Assumption, Reality Problem, Creaturely Inferiority Complex, Principle of Self-Sufficiency, Theory of Abstract Motion, Principle of Substantial Self-Sufficiency, Problem of Cohesion, Metaphysics of Method, Jakob Thomasius, Principle of Substantial Activity, Leibniz's Aristotelian, Rhetoric of Attraction, Principle of Harmonized Plenitude, Leibniz's Platonist, Renaissance Philosophy, Theory of Emanative Causation, Thomasius of April, Council of Trent New!
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- Renaissance Philosophy (History of Western Philosophy Series) by Brian P. Copenhaver on 7 pages
- Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz on 7 pages
- The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy by Daniel Garber on 6 pages
- The Young Leibniz and his Philosophy (1646-76) (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) by Stuart Brown on 5 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Lloyd P. Gerson on 5 pages
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- Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume I by Daniel Garber on page 197, page 199, and page 215
- Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (London Studies in the History of Philosophy) by Jill Kraye in Front Matter, page 252, and page 256
- The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context) by Eric Nelson on page 148, and Back Matter
- Substance and Individuation in Leibniz by J. A. Cover in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Nicholas Jolley on page 164, and page 352
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