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497Diotima's children: German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2): 258-259. 2011.
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75Why Shouldn’t Leibniz Have Studied Spinoza?The Leibniz Review 17 107-138. 2007.In light of the growing interest in the relation between Leibniz and Spinoza in recent years, I would like to draw attention to earlier discussions of this topic in Germany and France during the 19th century. Stein and Erdmann argued that Spinoza had an impact on Leibniz. According to their critics Guhrauer, Trendelenburg and Gerhardt in Germany, as well as Foucher de Careil in France, Leibniz studied Spinoza only after the main points of his system were already developed. I will show that the w…Read more
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56Leibniz’ Marginalia on the Back of the Title of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusThe Leibniz Review 18 269-272. 2008.
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56Spinoza’s parrot, Socinian Syllogisms, and Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Leibniz’s Three Strategies of Defending Christian MysteriesAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (4): 551-574. 2002.This paper intends to show the connection between the theological, logical and epistemological ideas in Leibniz’s thinking. The paper will focus on the reasons for Leibniz’s fundamental decision to defend the Christian mysteries and his three different strategies for doing so. Each of these strategies is an answer to a particular challenge: to the Socinian who claims that the mysteries are contradictory; to the mechanical philosophy which denies the possibility of the mysteries, and to Spinoza’s…Read more
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54Why Shouldn’t Leibniz Have Studied Spinoza?The Leibniz Review 17 107-138. 2007.In light of the growing interest in the relation between Leibniz and Spinoza in recent years, I would like to draw attention to earlier discussions of this topic in Germany and France during the 19th century. Stein and Erdmann argued that Spinoza had an impact on Leibniz. According to their critics Guhrauer, Trendelenburg and Gerhardt in Germany, as well as Foucher de Careil in France, Leibniz studied Spinoza only after the main points of his system were already developed. I will show that the w…Read more
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33Die lebensgeschichte spinozas (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1). 2008.When Jakob Freudenthal published Die Lebensgeschichte Spinozas in 1899, it was the first collection of biographical documents on Spinoza, who was then still seen as something of an ascetic and isolated philosopher. This view had been suggested by Jarig Jelles’ preface to Spinoza’s Opera posthuma. Bayle had also used Spinoza’s unique vita when arguing for his claim that an atheist could live a virtuous life. While this had offered a pretext for reading Spinoza since the end of the seventeenth cen…Read more
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29Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (edited book)Lexington Books. 2015.Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the current discussion of the possibility of morality without free will, as it was he who first accomplished such a task. While his contemporaries reacted with shock to his determinist philosophy, today more people are ready to take seriously Spinoza's moral philosophy, which provides a foundation for our understanding of responsibility, akrasia, and moral values without the need for free will.
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22Sovereignty and ObedienceIn Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford University Press. 2011.This article examines the treatment of the concepts of sovereignty and obedience in early modern Europe. It explores the conflicting conceptions of the people's right of resistance to the king as they developed in the political upheavals following the Reformation. It describes Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza's more differentiated and coherent concept of sovereignty and their discussion of civil rights. It also discusses the understanding of sovereignty and obedience that was developed by Samuel…Read more
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20Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind by Larry M. JorgensenJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (4): 684-686. 2021.Larry Jorgensen aims to show that "Leibniz offers a fully natural theory of mind", recommending Leibniz to our contemporary discussion of naturalism. Readers of Leibniz will, however, hesitate to call him a naturalist. After all, he considered natural laws to be subordinated rules below general divine laws and rejected explaining the soul's action by bodily motion. Jorgensen does have a point, though, when he refers to Leibniz's frequent pleas for natural explanations and his continuity principl…Read more
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18Urban Gottfried Bucher is one of the most surprising authors in early German enlightenment and has been rightly celebrated as a materialist and therefore radical thinker. But he did not teach the same kind of materialism as his contemporary Andreas Rüdiger who leaned toward Locke’s empiricism. Bucher is much closer to Hobbes’ mechanical materialism, to Spinoza’s criticism of free will, and to Tschirnhaus’ extending of the mathematical method to natural science. His explanation of the working of …Read more
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18(English translation of) “Contexte génétique et première réception de la Monadologie. Leibniz, Wolff et la Doctrine de L’harmonie préétablie,”The Leibniz Review 29 185-199. 2019.The many equivocations that, in several respects, characterised the reception of Leibniz's Principes de la Nature et de la Grâce and Monadologie, up until the last century, find their origins in the genetic circumstances of their manuscripts, which gave rise to misinformation published in an anonymous review that appeared in the Leipzig Acta eruditorum in 1721. Archival research demonstrates that the author of this review, as well as of the Latin review of the Monadologie, which appeared, the sa…Read more
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16L' Essai de logique de Mariotte. Archéologie des idées d’un savant ordinaire by Sophie RouxJournal of the History of Philosophy 51 (2): 320-322. 2013.
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16IntroductionIn Douglas Jesseph & Ursula Goldenbaum (eds.), Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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15Leibniz’ Marginalia on the Back of the Title of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusThe Leibniz Review 18 269-272. 2008.
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15Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796Akademie Verlag. 2004.Nach einer umfangreichen theoretischen Einführung wird auf der Grundlage von sieben Fallstudien die Funktion der öffentlichen Debatte für die Entstehung bürgerlicher Öffentlichkeit und Aufklärung im protestantischen Raum des Alten Reiches analysiert. Die Untersuchung bietet zugleich einen methodischen Zugriff zur Erforschung der Geschichte von Ideen, der sowohl den Vereinseitigungen der traditionellen Ideengeschichte als auch der sozial- und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Forschung entgehen will. Im…Read more
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13Die Lebensgeschichte SpinozasJournal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1): 141-142. 2009.When Jakob Freudenthal published Die Lebensgeschichte Spinozas in 1899, it was the first collection of biographical documents on Spinoza, who was then still seen as something of an ascetic and isolated philosopher. This view had been suggested by Jarig Jelles’ preface to Spinoza’s Opera posthuma. Bayle had also used Spinoza’s unique vita when arguing for his claim that an atheist could live a virtuous life. While this had offered a pretext for reading Spinoza since the end of the seventeenth cen…Read more
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13Indivisibilia Vera – How Leibniz Came to Love MathematicsIn Douglas Jesseph & Ursula Goldenbaum (eds.), Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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13Ausführliches InhaltsverzeichnisIn Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796, Akademie Verlag. pp. 965-972. 2004.
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12Thomas Hobbes' Revolution des NaturrechtsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 36 (5): 411. 1988.
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11Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2008."The development of the calculus during the 17th century was successful in mathematical practice, but raised questions about the nature of infinitesimals: were they real or rather fictitious? This collection of essays, by scholars from Canada, the US, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland, gives a comprehensive study of the controversies over the nature and status of the infinitesimal. Aside from Leibniz, the scholars considered are Hobbes, Wallis, Newton, Bernoulli, Hermann, and Nieuwentijt. …Read more
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9Friedrich II. und die Berliner AufklärungIn Iwan-M. D.´Aprile & Günther Lottes (eds.), Hofkultur Und Aufgeklärte Öffentlichkeit: Potsdam Im 18. Jahrhundert Im Europäischen Kontext, Akademie Verlag. pp. 123-142. 2006.
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8Von der Angst des Erkennens Zum 200. Todestag Moses MendelssohnsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 34 (1): 42. 1986.
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8Das Publikum als Garant der Freiheit der Gelehrtenrepublik: Die öffentliche Debatte über den Jugement de L'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belies Lettres sur une Lettre prétendue de M. de Leibnitz 1752-1753In Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796, Akademie Verlag. pp. 509-652. 2004.
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7Ding und Begriff. Zum Denkeinsatz Spinozas auf dem Hintergrund der Entwicklung neuzeitlicher NaturwissenschaftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 38 (8): 724. 1990.
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