· 2020· Book chapter
New Essays on Human Understanding
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- 2020year
Short summary
A new analysis argues that Leibniz's doctrines, presented in dialogue form, have modest but legitimate rational grounds for discrediting Locke's views, particularly regarding the connection between sense perception and intellect.
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Key points
- Leibniz's doctrines are presented as a counterpoint to John Locke's Essay.
- A dialogue format contrasts Locke's views with Leibniz's system.
- The analysis finds rational grounds for discrediting Locke's doctrines in favor of Leibniz's.
- Key Leibnizian concepts include substances as complete concrete individuals and the link between sense perception and intellect.
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Abstract
Abstract New Essays explicates Leibniz’s doctrines in response to John Locke’s Essay. The Preface anticipates the most important disagreements. The body of the work is a dialogue between an admirer of Locke, who retells the Essay and his friend who is impressed with Leibniz’s system. They compare views under somewhat artificial rules, with the result that many of Locke’s doctrines discredited in favour of Leibniz’s. I argue that these results have modest but legitimate rational ground. New Essays is tailored to readers influenced by Locke, stressing the inseparable connection between sense perception and intellect. It maintains in detail that the nature of substances is best understood by considering them as concrete individuals that are metaphysically complete down to their spatial and temporal relations to everything in the universe. However, New Essays also contains a wealth of philosophical views regarding language, logic, mathematics, physics, morals, persons, society, history, and more.
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