Studia Leibnitiana

ISSNs: 0039-3185, 2366-228X

6 found

View year:

  1. War Leibniz Absolutist?Hannes Amberger - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):102-122.
    What was Leibniz’s position on ‘absolute monarchy’? My contribution breaks this question down into two: Firstly, it asks about Leibniz’s opinion on absolute sovereignty as a theoretical paradigm, and secondly, about his view on the enhanced power of some monarchies that could be observed de facto. Leibniz rejects the theoretical paradigm developed, for instance, by Hobbes - rather, he proposes a gradual understanding of sovereignty inspired by the Holy Roman Empire, in which both the Empire and the individual territories can (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2. The Unity of the Principle of Contradiction in Leibniz.Clara Carus - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):85-101.
    Rodriguez-Pereyra (2013) points to at least six different principles referred to as the principle of contradiction in Leibniz and states: ‘The texts suggest that on different occasions he used ‘Principle of Contradiction’ to refer to different principles. This is puzzling, given the subtlety and power of Leibniz’s mind, for it suggests that he did not really distinguish between the different versions of the principle.’ Rodriguez-Pereyra himself suggests that the ‘different principles’ are versions of the PC, as they are all principles (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  3. Pensées leibniziennes sur l’acoustique.François Duchesneau - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):27-54.
    Leibniz developed his Cogitationes novæ on acoustics in the period of 1682 to 1685 in concomitance with epistolary exchanges with Schelhammer and Mariotte. In this piece, he sets forth an explanatory model for the production, transmission and hearing of sounds. Different from those of contemporaries, such as Claude Perrault’s, this model is based on a conception of vibratory processes enabling the prevalent replication of sounds of a given tonality. Furthermore, Leibniz’s hypothesis implies the essential elasticity of sounding bodies and a (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4. The Unimportance of Hope in Leibniz’s Philosophy.Åsne Dorthea Grøgaard - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):55-84.
    This paper examines the role of the notion of hope in Leibniz’s philosophy and argues that contrary to what has been claimed by recent commentators, Leibniz should not be counted among the philosophical proponents of hope. I argue, firstly, that there are insufficient textual grounds for making ‘hope’ a central concept in Leibniz’s philosophical apparatus; as it figures in his writings, it does not appear to serve a distinct function. However, this textual insignificance points to a deeper issue in his (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. Hauptlinien der Hermeneutik des Pietismus und der deutschen Aufklärung.Luigi Cataldi Madonna - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):123-153.
    In the eighteenth century, German hermeneutics developed out of the convergence of Pietism and Enlightenment. The initial conflict between the two traditions soon turned into a fruitful exchange of ideas that led to a radical reform of protestant orthodoxy. A new intellectual figure was born: the enlightener-pietist (or vice versa), who dominated the cultural scene of the time. This confluence of ideas caused three important results: 1. The need for a general hermeneutics that included sacred hermeneutics and could be applied (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6. Archive gegen Mythen: Der Hannoveraner Historiker Johann Heinrich Jung (1715–1799) und die Grafen von Bentheim.Bernd Roling - 2024 - Studia Leibnitiana 56 (1):6-26.
    How could the methods of critical historiography be established in the middle of the 18th century? The following study presents an example, the Royal librarian and successor of Leibniz, Johann Heinrich Jung. One of the many treatises Jung elaborated was a ‘History of the Counts of Bentheim’, published 1773, which demonstrates almost paradigmatically, what a critical examination of the sources could achieve. Jung’s notes, consisting of 14 volumes, stored in the Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover, are documents of Jung’s meticulous research, (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
 Previous issues
  
Next issues