Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; PART I: Basic Works; Letter to Foucher (1675); Preface to a Universal Characteristic (1678-79); Samples of the Numerical Characteristic (1679); On Freedom and Possibility (1680-82?); Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684); On Contingency (1686?); Primary Truths (1686?); Discourse on Metaphysics (1686); From the Letters to Arnauld (1686-87); On Copernicanism and the Relativity of Motion (1689); On Freedom (1689?); The Source of Contingent Truths (1685-89?); Notes on Some Comments by Michel Angelo Fardella (1690). Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction PART I: Basic Works Letter to Foucher (1675) Preface to a Universal Characteristic (1678-79) Samples of the Numerical Characteristic (1679) On Freedom and Possibility (1680-82?) Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684) On Contingency (1686?) Primary Truths (1686?) Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) From the Letters to Arnauld (1686-87) On Copernicanism and the Relativity of Motion (1689) On Freedom (1689?) The Source of Contingent Truths (1685-89?) Notes on Some Comments by Michel Angelo Fardella (1690). Dynamics: On Power and the Laws of Corporeal NatureDialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (25 January 1695) A Specimen of Dynamics A New System of the Nature Note on Foucher's Objection (1695) Postscript of a Letter to Basnage de Beauval (1696) On the Ultimate Origination of Things (23 November 1697) On Nature Itself From the Letters to Johann Bernoulli (1698-99) From the Letters to de Volder (1699-1706) Letter to Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, On What Is Independent of Sense and Matter (1702) Letter to Coste, on Human Freedom (19 December 1707). Remark of the Author of the System of Pre-established Harmony on a Passage from the Mémoiresde Trévoux of March 1704 (1708)From the Letters to Des Bosses (1712-16) Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason (1714) The Principles of Philosophy, or, the Monadology (1714) Letter to Samuel Masson, on Body (1716) From the Letters to Wolff (1714-15) PART II: Leibniz on His Contemporaries: Descartes and Malebranche Letter to Countess Elizabeth, On God and Formal Logic (1678?) Letter to Molanus On God and the Soul (ca. 1679). On the Nature of Body and the Laws of Motion (ca. 1678-82)On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians (May 1702) Conversation of Philarète and Ariste Hobbes and Spinoza Dialogue (August 1677) Comments on Spinoza's Philosophy (1707?) Two Sects of Naturalists (1677-80) Locke From a Letter to Thomas Burnett, on the Occasion of Rereading Locke (3 December 1703) From the Letters to Thomas Burnett, on Substance (1699) From a Letter to Lady Masham, on Thinking Matter (30 June 1704) Preface to the New Essays (1703-05) Berkeley From a Letter to Des Bosses (5 March 1715). Remarks on Berkeley's Principles (Winter 1714-15)Newton Absolute and Relative Motion, From Letters to Huygens (1694) Planetary Theory, from a Letter to Huygens (1690) Against Barbaric Physics From the Letters to Clarke (1715-16) Appendixes Notes on the Texts Brief Biographies of Some Contemporaries of Leibniz Index Back Cover.