All Remarks of "Remarks on Leibniz's New Essays"

All Files on Leibniz's New Essays

 

General Introduction

General Introduction The fundamental problem of presuppositions Natural Language: Natural Logic: Natural Realism: Natural Philosophy and the making of mental models Why it makes sense to study Leibniz's New Essays on Human Understanding The structure of this text

 

Editor's Preface

Leibniz's rationalism and rationalism Rationalism in terms of principles of inference Whether there is a reason for every fact The role of the free will The mind as experienced or as what produces experience Self and self Necessary truths Pre-Established Harmony and reality Monads Choice Essences and empiricism The special status of human beings for human beings

 

Leibniz's Preface

A simple kind of necessary truth If-then notions and sequences The mind and the body Leibniz and the unconscious Identity and universals and symbolizing what does or cannot exist Mechanism, qualia and vitalism

 

Book 1 Chapter 1 Whether there are any innate principles in the mind of man.

A basic Leibnizian motivation and the ideological fallacy The principle of persistence First assumptions Mental scope Human abstractions involve selection and symbolization An innate human faculty for symbolizing Necessary truths and other kinds of truths Necessary truths and (humanly) necessary falsities A difficulty about mathematical truths The problem of induction The faculty of understanding The powers of symbolical representation The human mind in nature Kinds of necessary truth On learning innate truths Ideas humans may be born with Mathematics as innate or acquired Innate or necessary knowledge of the human faculties Thoughts contrasted with ideas

 

Book 1 Chapter 2 That there are no innate practical principles

Truths everybody consents to The necessities involved in human communication The principles of Natural Kinds and Persistence  On innate moral principles Discovering innate truths and making discoveries On doing to others as one would be done unto Whether a God is necessary to maintain human morality Instincts and human nature

 

Book 1 Chapter 3 Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical.

On necessary ideas A fundamental human problem Principles involved in human reasoning

Colofon: This version only covers the text up to chapter 1. Those who want to read all have to mail me, at "maartens@xs4all.nl". Maarten Maartensz, August 2, 2000.

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