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Search Amazon Search: Books Keywords: Search Powell's Find books by and about Gottfried W. Leibniz at Powell's Books. Adventures in Philosophy: Gottfried W. Leibniz - The Classic Philosophers: Gottfried W. Leibniz Gottfried W. Leibniz (1646-1716) wanted to solve the two problems left unsolved by Descartes, by means of the concept of the Aristotelian "form" developing itself from potency and actuality. The fundamental reality is the "monad," an entity devoid of all extension but endowed with activity. This activity consists in representation. Every monad represents the universe from its point of view. Apperception is a conscious representation. The activity of the monads is regulated by God, the supreme Monad. Need Some Help With This Philosopher? The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart A drama of ideas as urgent and compelling as Copenhagen;a dance of personalities as colorful as in Wittgenstein's Poker. Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive philosopher known as an "atheist Jew," Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly ambitious young genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz became obsessed with Spinoza's writings, wrote him clandestine letters, and ultimately called on Spinoza in person at his home in The Hague.  Both men were at the center of the intense religious, political, and personal battles that gave birth to the modern age. One was a hermit with many friends; the other, a socialite no one trusted. One believed in a God whom almost nobody thought divine; the other defended a God in whom he probably did not believe. Their characters and ways of life defined their philosophies. In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart dramatizes a titanic clash of beliefs that still continues today. Order at Amazon Books -- Order at Powell's Books

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