The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy

G. W. Leibniz

Published by Yale University Press 2016

The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy

G. W. Leibniz
Edited by: François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith

In the series The Yale Leibniz Series

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300164732

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The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies

The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship.

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François Duchesneau is a professor at the Université de Montréal and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Justin E. H. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris 7 Diderot.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Note on the Texts and Translation Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Negotium otiosum
1. Stahl’s Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Leibniz’s Animadversions Concerning Certain Assertions of the True Medical Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Stahl’s Enodations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Stahl’s Summary of the Principal Points of Doubt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
5. Leibniz’s Exceptions and Stahl’s Replies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Textual Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Editorial Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 536

eBook

Published: August 9, 2016
ISBN: 9780300164732