Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide [Hardcover ed.] 0198844980, 9780198844983

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Contents

List of contributors List of abbreviations

Introduction, including a sketch of Leibnizs life and philosophical works

xi xiii 1

Paul Lodge and Lloyd Strickland

1. “Confessio philosophi”

16

Lucy Sheaf

2. “De summa rerum”

36

Mogens Lcerke

3. “Discourse on Metaphysics”

56

Lloyd Strickland

4. The Correspondence with Arnauld

80

Julia Jorati

5. “New System of the Nature of Substances. . . ”

101

Julia Borcherding

6. The Correspondence with De Voider

123

John Whipple

7. New Essays on Human Understanding

145

Martha Brandt Bolton

8. The Theodicy

173

Paul Lodge

9. The “Monadology”

206

Lloyd Strickland

10. The Correspondence with Clarke

228

Gregory Brown

11. “Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese”

250

Daniel J. Cook References Index

271 287

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List of abbreviations

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Samtliche Schriften und Briefe, ed. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 8 series, each divided into multiple volumes (Berlin Akademie Verlag, 1923-). Cited by series, volume, and page or item number (N). Oeuvres de Descartes, 11 vols, ed. C. Adam and P. Tannery (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1974). Cited by volume and page. Confessio Philosophi: Papers concerning the Problem of Evil 1671-1678, trans. and ed. R. C. Sleigh (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005). The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, 3 vols, trans. and ed. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch, and A. Kenny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984-91). Cited by volume and page. Discours sur la Theologie Naturelle des Chinois, Veroffentlichungen Des Leibniz- Archivs (Frankfurt: Verlag Vittorio Klosterman, 2002). Dissertation on Predestination and Grace, trans. and ed. M. Murray (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011). De Summa Rerum: Metaphysical Papers 1675-76, trans. and ed. G. H. R. Parkinson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992). G. G. Leibnitii Opera Omnia, ed. L. Dutens, 6 vols (Geneva, 1768). Spinoza Opera im Auftrag der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 4 vols, ed. C. Gebhardt (Heidelberg: Karl Winters, 1925). Leibniziens Mathematische Schriften, ed. C. I. Gerhardt, 7 vols (Berlin: Weidman, 1849-63). Reprinted (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1977). Cited by volume and page. Die Philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ed. C. I. Gerhardt, 7 vols (Berlin: Weidman, 1875-90). Reprinted (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1978). Cited by volume and page. Textes inedits d ’apres des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque provinciale d’Hanovre, 2 vols, ed. G. Grua (Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, 1948). Reprinted (New York: Garland, 1985). Cited by volume and page. Briefwechsel zwischen Leibniz und Christian Wolf, ed. C. I. Gerhardt (Halle: H. W. Schmidt, 1860). Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil, trans. E. M. Huggard, ed. and introd. A. Farrar (Chicago: Open Court, 1990). De Vhorizon de la doctrine humaine, ed. M. Fichant (Paris: Vrin, 1991). Die Werke von Leibniz, ed. O. Klopp, 11 vols (Hanover: Klindworth, 1864-84). The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence, ed. and trans. H. T. Mason (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967). The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence: With Selections from the Correspondence with Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels, trans. and ed. S. Voss (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016).

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