Book · 1686 · Nonfiction

Discourse on Metaphysics

Name: Discourse on Metaphysics
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Hackett · 84 pages

★ 6.3 editorial score

Leibniz answers Descartes and Spinoza with a universe of self-contained substances, each carrying its whole history and future inside its own concept and mirroring the world from where it stands.

Genre

Philosophy Metaphysics

Subject

God Reason

Time

1686Depicts Scientific Revolution

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