Philosophical Texts

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL; How to Use this Book; Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Substance and Matter; 3. Physics and Natural Science; 4. The Metaphysics of Causation; 5. The Union of Body and Mind; 6. Humans, Animals, and their Minds; 7. From God to the Best Possible World: Creation, Freedom, and the Community of Rational Minds; 8. Leibniz: Life and Influence; The Texts Printed in this Edition; PART 2: THE TEXTS; 1. Discourse on Metaphysics (1686); 2. Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-1687); 3. Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics (1694); 4. New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication, and of the Union which Exists between the Body and the Soul (1695); 5. Specimen Dynamicum: An Essay in Dynamics (1695); 6. Reply of M. S.F. to M. de L.B.Z. on his System of the Communication between Substances (1695); 7. Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections (1695); 8. Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances (1696); 9. Extract from a Letter Written by M. de Leibniz about his Philosophical Hypothesis (1696); 10. Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1697); 11. Leibniz's Comments on Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1705?); 12. A Letter to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System (1698); 13. Nature Itself (1698); 14. Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1702); 15. Leibniz's Comments on Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1705?); 16. Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article 'Rorarius', concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony (1702; published 1716) published 1716) Harmony Contained in the Second Edition of the Critical Dictionary of M. Bayle (1702; published 1716); 17. Draft Letters from Leibniz to Bayle (1702); 18. Principles of Nature and Grace (1714); 19. Monadology (1714); PART 3: NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX; Notes;