By Vincenzo de Risi
ISBN-10: 3764379855
ISBN-13: 9783764379858
ISBN-10: 3764379863
ISBN-13: 9783764379865
This booklet reconstructs, from either historic and theoretical issues of view, Leibniz’s geometrical reports, focusing specifically at the study Leibniz performed within the final years of his lifestyles. it truly is certainly the 1st ever accomplished old reconstruction of Leibniz’s geometry that meets the pursuits of either mathematicians and philosophers. the most objective of the paintings is to provide a greater realizing of the Leibnizean philosophy of area and mature metaphysics, via a urgent disagreement with the issues of geometric foundations.
Regarding the scope of those difficulties, the booklet additionally offers extensive with Leibniz’s idea of sensibility, therefore favouring the comparability and distinction among Leibniz’s philosophy and Kant’s transcendentalist resolution. The Appendix references to a few formerly unpublished manuscripts on geometry from the Leibniz Archiv in Hannover, which divulge new theories, issues of view and technicalities of Leibniz’s proposal.
I locate his [De Risi's] contribution to the controversy at the truth of corporeal ingredients to be right away unique and decisive. and at last, i'm highly inspired by way of the services he has dropped at endure on either the in simple terms formal and the deeply metaphysical facets, every one requiring significantly diversified yet both significant competences. i'm inspired by way of the unique method within which he is sensible of the phenomenalistic traces in Leibniz’s idea through connecting them with the metaphysics of expression, and this in flip with the basis of actual house. In sum, this [book] is a unprecedented accomplishment.
(R.T.W. Arthur, McMaster University)
I think that this is often a unprecedented [book] which units new criteria for Leibnizean scholarship—and, particularly, for historic and philosophical research into the connection among Leibniz and Kant.
(M. Friedman, Stanford University)
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