New Essays on Human Understanding

by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

• ISBN13: 9780521285391
• ISBN10: 0521285399
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-11-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Throughout this philosophical classic, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's main work, the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The result is an important confrontation of the two traditions of rationalism & empiricism.

Table of Contents

Editors Introduction

Preface

Of Innate Notions

Whether there are innate principles in the mind of man

That there are no innate practical principles

Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical

Of Idea

In which we discuss ideas in general and incidentally consider whether the soul of man always thinks

Of simple ideas

Of ideas of one sense

Of solidity

Of simple ideas of several sense

Of simple ideas of reflection

Of ideas of both sensation and reflection

Some further considerations concerning simple ideas

Of perception

Of retention

Of discerning or the faculty of distinguishing ideas

Of complex ideas

Of simple modes, and first, of the simple modes of space

Of duration and its simple modes

Of duration and expansion, considered together

Of number

Of infinity

Of other simple modes

Of the modes of thinking

Of modes of pleasure and pain

Of power and freedom

Of mixed modes

Of our complex ideas of substances

Of collective ideas of substances

Of relation

Of cause and effect and other relations

What identity or diversity is

Of certain other relations, especially moral relations

Of clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas

Of real and chimerical ideas

Of complete and incomplete ideas

Of true and false ideas

Of the association of ideas

Of Words

Of words or language in general

Of the signification of words

Of general terms

Of the names of simple ideas

Of the names of mixed modes and relations

Of the names of substances

Of particles

Of abstract and concrete terms

Of the imperfection of words

Of the abuse of words

Of the remedies of the foregoing imperfections and abuses

Of Knowledge

Of knowledge in general

Of the degrees of our knowledge

Of the extent of human knowledge

Of the reality of our knowledge

Of truth in general

Of universal propositions, their truth and certainty

Of the propositions which are named maxims or axioms

Of trifling propositions

Of our knowledge of our existence

Of our knowledge of the existence of God

Of our knowledge of the existence of other things

Of ways of increasing our knowledge

Some further considerations concerning our knowledge

Of judgement

Of probability

Of the degrees of assent

Of reason

Of faith and reason, and their distinct provinces

Of enthusiasm

Of error

Of the division of the sciences

Bibliography

Index

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