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Hace 5 días · The course will introduce students to the philosophical systems of the gigantic figures in the history of philosophy, Spinoza and Leibniz. It will explore's absolute monism and, in critical response also to Spinoza, (ii) the dynamic, pluralist philosophical system of Leibniz.
The first person to suggest the use of possible worlds to understand the meaning of the logics was Carnap in 1946, who got the idea from Leibniz (It first appears in the Discourse on Metaphysics in 1686, I believe, but someone better versed in Leibniz scholarship can confirm that).
17 de jun. de 2024 · Further, metaphysical positions are commonly assumed in public discourse: people believe in an objective good for rational beings mediated by human rights, justice systems are founded based on free will, abrahamic religions based on the existence of a god.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Leibniz dated his beginning as a philosopher to his Discourse on Metaphysics, which he composed in 1686 as a commentary on a running dispute between Nicolas Malebranche and Antoine Arnauld. We propose it to our readers today in the English translation by George Redington Montgomery (1909).
11 de jun. de 2024 · metaphysical explanation with which philosophers are interested is deeply connected with an ordinary folk notion of explanation. Many philosophers suppose that metaphys-ical explanations have been a staple of human interaction for a long time, and are not a unique feature of philosophical discourse. Scha er [3] claims that ...
11 de jun. de 2024 · One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attacked the findings from a position of scientific scepticism enshrouded with Lutheran theology in his thesis Concerning the Blood-Sucking ...
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
