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Title: A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz: With an Appendix of Leading Passages by Bertrand Arthur Russell, John G. Slater ISBN: 0-415-08296-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
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Summary: Might Benefit from Less Russell
Comment: It's actually two books by two different authors. The last 100 pages consists of extracts from various articles, letters, and journal entries by Leibniz that Bertrand Russell put together to form a coherent statement (since Leibniz never actually wrote a whole book himself). The first 200 pages consists of Russell's analysis of the 100 pages of Leibniz's philosophy.
The Leibniz section is pretty straightforward and interesting. I read the book because I was curious about "monads", which are the metaphysical analog of mathematical points (well, sort of). Before Leibniz gets around to monads, he goes into his theory of predicates (every element of the universe is a predicate that goes toward describing ME), which I found pretty interesting. There's also some discussion of space and time that I liked. The last part of the Leibniz section contains some arguments for the existence of God, which is probably the weakest and least interesting part of his philosophy -- as Russell gleefully and exhaustively points out.
I didn't like the Russell section (2/3 of the book) much partly because he brings other philosophers like Hegel and Kant into the discussion (I'm not very familiar with either); and partly because he goes into such depth critiquing fine points in the Leibniz writings, that I completely lost interest in anything Russell has to say.
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Title: Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Roger Scruton ISBN: 0192801996 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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