Leibniz: Philosophical Writings

This volume contains translations of some of the most important philosophical works of one of the major rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century. In these works he attempted to derive a metaphysics from logical principles and expounded his theory of the nature of individual substances, his views on a priori knowledge, about space and tirme and about free-will.

For this edition Mary Morris's translation has been revised by Professor Parkinson, who has also made translations of twelve items to replace some of the works translated by Mrs Morris. Several of the works are not currently available elsewhere in English. Professor Parkinson also provides an introduction, a bibliography and extensive explanatory notes.