Oxford University Press, 1989, 271 pp.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most imposing figures in the history of Weste thought. In this definitive treatment of his wide-ranging philosophical ideas, Benson Mates has brought his own formidable abilities to bear on the unwieldy-and virtually inaccessible-corpus of Leibniz's work. The result is an elegantly written and meticulously reasoned exegesis of the fundamental Leibniz, one that is destined to be a coerstone of Leibniz scholarship for years to come.
"Teachers who are looking for a brief reliable account of what Leibniz is all about.could hardly do better. Mates writes with clarity and precision and has written what is now probably the best general account of Leibniz's philosophy from the perspective of the logician and general metaphysician", Inteational Philosophical Quarterly
ISBN-10: 0195059468, ISBN-13: 978-0195059465
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most imposing figures in the history of Weste thought. In this definitive treatment of his wide-ranging philosophical ideas, Benson Mates has brought his own formidable abilities to bear on the unwieldy-and virtually inaccessible-corpus of Leibniz's work. The result is an elegantly written and meticulously reasoned exegesis of the fundamental Leibniz, one that is destined to be a coerstone of Leibniz scholarship for years to come.
"Teachers who are looking for a brief reliable account of what Leibniz is all about.could hardly do better. Mates writes with clarity and precision and has written what is now probably the best general account of Leibniz's philosophy from the perspective of the logician and general metaphysician", Inteational Philosophical Quarterly
ISBN-10: 0195059468, ISBN-13: 978-0195059465