De Summa Rerum
by G. W. LeibnizFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1992-05-27
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
Other versions by this Author
List Price: $100.82
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
Digital
$67.14*
New Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
Used Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
Summary
The Yale Leibniz is a series of books containing texts and translations of the works of G.W. Leibniz. The series is intended to produce neither a complete edition of Leibniz's writings nor a comprehensive selected works edition...The focus of the series is Leibniz's philosophical thought, but this is interpreted broadly enough to include not only his metaphysics and epistemology, but also his theology, his physics, and even aspects of his mathematics.
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations | |
| A Note on the Text and Translation | |
| Introduction | |
| The Origins and Significance of the De Summa Rerum | |
| Philosophy and the Search for Primary Truths | |
| Ideas, Possibility, and God | |
| The Principles of Contradiction, Sufficient Reason, and Harmony | |
| Material Things: A Phenomenalist Analysis | |
| Minds and Material Things | |
| Space and Time | |
| Atoms and the Actual Infinite | |
| Laws of Nature | |
| The Human Mind and its Relation to God | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chronological Table | |
| De Summa Rerum | p. 1 |
| On Mind, the Universe, and God (2nd half? of Dec. 1675) | p. 2 |
| On Matter, Motion, Minima, and the Continuum (Dec. 1675) | p. 10 |
| On the Secrets of the Sublime, or on the Supreme Being (11 Feb. 1676) | p. 20 |
| On the Seat of the Soul (Feb. 1676) | p. 32 |
| On the Union of Soul and Body (Feb.? 1676) | p. 34 |
| On Magnitude (Early? 1676) | p. 36 |
| Excerpts from Notes on Science and Metaphysics (18 and 22 March 1676) | p. 42 |
| A Meditation on the Principle of the Individual (1 April 1676) | p. 50 |
| On the Elements of Thinking (1st half of April 1676) | p. 52 |
| On Truths, the Mind, God, and the Universe (15 April 1676) | p. 56 |
| On Forms, or, the Attributes of God (2nd half? of April 1676) | p. 68 |
| On Reminiscence and on the Mind's Self-reflection (2nd half? of April 1676) | p. 70 |
| On the Origin of Things from Forms (April? 1676) | p. 74 |
| On Simple Forms (April 1676) | p. 82 |
| On the Plenitude of the World (Early? 1676) | p. 84 |
| Guilielmus Pacidius on the Secrets of Things (Early? 1676) | p. 88 |
| That a Most Perfect Being is Possible (Nov.? 1676) | p. 90 |
| A Most Perfect Being Exists (Nov.? 1676) | p. 96 |
| That a Most Perfect Being Exists (18-21 Nov.? 1676) | p. 100 |
| My Principle is: Whatever can Exist and is Compatible with Others, Exists (12 Dec. 1676) | p. 102 |
| A Definition of God, or, of an Independent Being (Dec.? 1676) | p. 104 |
| A Chain of Wonderful Demonstrations about the Universe (12 Dec. 1676) | p. 106 |
| Thought is not Motion (Dec. 1676) | p. 110 |
| On Existence (Dec.? 1676) | p. 110 |
| Notes on Metaphysics (Dec. 1676) | p. 114 |
| Notes | p. 117 |
| Index of Names | p. 141 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 142 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
Digital License
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.
More details can be found here.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.