Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: An Intellectual Portrait

Przemysław Gut

doi:10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-1

Przemysław Gut The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-1

Keywords: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; modern philosophy; rationalism; pluralism; monad; theism

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to set out the following: firstly, the most important facts from Leibniz’s biography; secondly, the position of Leibniz’s philosophy within the philosophical thought of the 17^th century; thirdly, the diverse ways to explicate Leibniz’s philosophical thought that are still in use in literature today; fourthly, basic features which define the general spirit as well as the methods of Leibniz’s philosophizing.

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