Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: An Intellectual Portrait

Przemysław Gut

doi:10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-1

Published : 2017-06-29

Vol. 65 No. 2 (2017)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: An Intellectual Portrait

Przemysław Gut

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

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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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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, modern philosophy, rationalism, pluralism, monad, theism

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Gut, P. (2017). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: An Intellectual Portrait. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 65(2), 5–21. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-1

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