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Delphi Collected Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has been called the “last universal genius” due to his vast expertise across numerous fields. A prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the world of mathematics, Leibniz produced groundbreaking works on theology, ethics, politics, law, history, physics, music and other studies. As a philosopher, he was a leading representative of seventeenth century rationalism and idealism, being especially noted for his optimism and his famous conclusion that our world is “the best possible world that God could have created”. As a mathematician, he developed the main ideas of calculus and devised the binary number system that is the basis of modern digital computing and communications. This eBook presents Leibniz’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leibniz’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* Features rare treatises and dialogues
* Images of how the texts were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with contents tables
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Leibniz’ contribution to world literature
* Features two biographies – discover Leibniz’ incredible life
The Works
System of Theology (1686)
Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
A Philosopher’s Creed (1673)
Extracts from the ‘New Essays on the Understanding’ (1704)
Theodicy (1710)
Monadology (1714)
The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz (1890)
Correspondence with Baruch Spinoza
The Criticism
An Abstract of a Book Lately Published Entitled a Treatise of Human Nature Etc. (1740) by David Hume
Leibnitz (1837) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1858) by Frederic Henry Hedge
Leibniz Rewritten (1899) by Charles Sanders Peirce
Leibniz as a Politician (1911) by Adolphus William Ward
The Biographies
Life and Philosophy of Leibnitz (1856) by Alexander Campbell Fraser
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1911) by William Ritchie Sorley
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leibniz’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* Features rare treatises and dialogues
* Images of how the texts were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with contents tables
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Leibniz’ contribution to world literature
* Features two biographies – discover Leibniz’ incredible life
The Works
System of Theology (1686)
Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
A Philosopher’s Creed (1673)
Extracts from the ‘New Essays on the Understanding’ (1704)
Theodicy (1710)
Monadology (1714)
The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz (1890)
Correspondence with Baruch Spinoza
The Criticism
An Abstract of a Book Lately Published Entitled a Treatise of Human Nature Etc. (1740) by David Hume
Leibnitz (1837) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1858) by Frederic Henry Hedge
Leibniz Rewritten (1899) by Charles Sanders Peirce
Leibniz as a Politician (1911) by Adolphus William Ward
The Biographies
Life and Philosophy of Leibnitz (1856) by Alexander Campbell Fraser
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1911) by William Ritchie Sorley
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Published February 12, 2025
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1,265 books541 followersGerman philosopher and mathematician Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz or Leibnitz invented differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton and proposed an optimist metaphysical theory that included the notion that we live in "the best of all possible worlds."
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a polymath, occupies a prominent place in the history. Most scholars think that Leibniz developed and published ever widely used notation. Only in the 20th century, his law of continuity and transcendental homogeneity found implementation in means of nonstandard analysis. He of the most prolific in the field of mechanical calculators. He worked on adding automatic multiplication and division to calculator of Blaise Pascal, meanwhile first described a pinwheel in 1685, and used it in the first mass-produced mechanical arithmometer. He also refined the binary number system, the foundation of virtually all digital computers.
Leibniz most concluded that God ably created our universe in a restricted sense, Voltaire often lampooned the idea. Leibniz alongside the great René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza advocated 17th-century rationalism. Applying reason of first principles or prior definitions, rather than empirical evidence, produced conclusions in the scholastic tradition, and the work of Leibniz anticipated modern analytic logic.
Leibniz made major contributions to technology, and anticipated that which surfaced much later in probability, biology, medicine, geology, psychology, linguistics, and computer science. He wrote works on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, and philology. Various learned journals, tens of thousands of letters, and unpublished manuscripts scattered contributions of Leibniz to this vast array of subjects. He wrote in several languages but primarily Latin and French. No one completely gathered the writings of Leibniz.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a polymath, occupies a prominent place in the history. Most scholars think that Leibniz developed and published ever widely used notation. Only in the 20th century, his law of continuity and transcendental homogeneity found implementation in means of nonstandard analysis. He of the most prolific in the field of mechanical calculators. He worked on adding automatic multiplication and division to calculator of Blaise Pascal, meanwhile first described a pinwheel in 1685, and used it in the first mass-produced mechanical arithmometer. He also refined the binary number system, the foundation of virtually all digital computers.
Leibniz most concluded that God ably created our universe in a restricted sense, Voltaire often lampooned the idea. Leibniz alongside the great René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza advocated 17th-century rationalism. Applying reason of first principles or prior definitions, rather than empirical evidence, produced conclusions in the scholastic tradition, and the work of Leibniz anticipated modern analytic logic.
Leibniz made major contributions to technology, and anticipated that which surfaced much later in probability, biology, medicine, geology, psychology, linguistics, and computer science. He wrote works on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, and philology. Various learned journals, tens of thousands of letters, and unpublished manuscripts scattered contributions of Leibniz to this vast array of subjects. He wrote in several languages but primarily Latin and French. No one completely gathered the writings of Leibniz.
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April 27, 2025
"The greatest pleasure one can have is the recognition of being loved by others. That is also what God wants from us."
I didn’t understand that at all four years ago. Enshrouded in darkness as I Was, a light such as Leibniz would’ve been unbearable to face, and so it was.
Since then I’ve been lucky enough to learn that indeed, the greatest pleasure (a too weak of a word) is the recognition of being loved by others. Or just by an other. A single moment of total awareness of another persons unconditional love for us is enough to save us. To be loved, especially when you know that you don’t deserve it, just for an instant, can turn everything around. It’s stronger than all darkness. To my great surprise.
Now to think, that we have this power ourselves, all of as, to love others in spite of themselves. Locking eyes and truly seeing their holiness for one singular moment is enough to initiate the deepest possible transformation. Not sure how you see others that way, but I’ve been seen that way, and I immediately bloomed in all dimensions. Or maybe the issues not in the beholder, but in the beholden, who has to believe this of themselves for this instant as well… Unsure how to untangle the causal relationship there. But when the idea emerges and crystallises in consciousness - that we are enough, that we are loved, that we are forgiven despite our sins, that there is mercy and compassion, it really does seem like we are in a perfect world. A very strange experience, for of course there is suffering, yes there is. And yes we sin. But beyond all of that there seems to be this ultimate mercy and compassion. And sometimes this absoluteness manifests itself in the particular, in the gaze of another person, who smiles at you and holds you, and now you understand that you can be so much, that it is not over, that you are ok even with your flaws and your mistakes and your errors, that you can be forgiven, that you forget, and that others will hurt you- but that you’re capable of forgiving them as well, even in the deepest betrayal, mercy is the answer, not vengeance.
As for what God may want of us, who knows. Maybe I’ll understand what Leibniz meant in another four years time.
I didn’t understand that at all four years ago. Enshrouded in darkness as I Was, a light such as Leibniz would’ve been unbearable to face, and so it was.
Since then I’ve been lucky enough to learn that indeed, the greatest pleasure (a too weak of a word) is the recognition of being loved by others. Or just by an other. A single moment of total awareness of another persons unconditional love for us is enough to save us. To be loved, especially when you know that you don’t deserve it, just for an instant, can turn everything around. It’s stronger than all darkness. To my great surprise.
Now to think, that we have this power ourselves, all of as, to love others in spite of themselves. Locking eyes and truly seeing their holiness for one singular moment is enough to initiate the deepest possible transformation. Not sure how you see others that way, but I’ve been seen that way, and I immediately bloomed in all dimensions. Or maybe the issues not in the beholder, but in the beholden, who has to believe this of themselves for this instant as well… Unsure how to untangle the causal relationship there. But when the idea emerges and crystallises in consciousness - that we are enough, that we are loved, that we are forgiven despite our sins, that there is mercy and compassion, it really does seem like we are in a perfect world. A very strange experience, for of course there is suffering, yes there is. And yes we sin. But beyond all of that there seems to be this ultimate mercy and compassion. And sometimes this absoluteness manifests itself in the particular, in the gaze of another person, who smiles at you and holds you, and now you understand that you can be so much, that it is not over, that you are ok even with your flaws and your mistakes and your errors, that you can be forgiven, that you forget, and that others will hurt you- but that you’re capable of forgiving them as well, even in the deepest betrayal, mercy is the answer, not vengeance.
As for what God may want of us, who knows. Maybe I’ll understand what Leibniz meant in another four years time.
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