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Book SynopsisThis book provides the original text of A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, which was first published in 1900. The text includes an appendix containing extracts from Leibniz, classified according to subject. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Leibniz and the early philosophy of Russell.
Table of Contents1. Leibniz's premisses; 2. Necessary propositions and the law of contradiction; 3. Contingent propositions and the law of sufficient reason; 4. The conception of substance; 5. The identity of indiscernibles and the law of continuity. Possibility and compossibility; 6. Why did Leibniz believe in an external world?; 7. The philosophy of matter: (a) as the outcome of the principles of dynamics; 8. The philosophy of matter (continued), (b) as explaining continuity and extension; 9. The labyrinth of the continuum; 10. The theory of space and time and its relation to monadism; 11. The nature of monads in general; 12. Soul and body; 13. Confused and unconscious perception; 14. Leibniz's theory of knowledge; 15. Proofs of the existence of God; 16. Leibniz's ethics; Appendix.
