ThePhilosophyCenter: Rationalism #2
Hello! Another relevant rationalist philosophers is Gottfried Leibniz, a rationalist philsopher. We will do his philosopher profile first before delving deeper. ----- CHARACTER PROFILE: GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Born: 1645, Leipzig, Germany. Died: 1716, Hanover, Germany. Works:Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, Monadology, the Discourse on Metaphysics, etc. Ideas: Rationalism, Theory of Monads, Text Intro: Leibniz is a polymath, meaning he had knowledge in many topics, butnhe also was a rationalist philosopher. He contributed greatly to mathematics, particularly calculus. He was religious. ------ According to Leibniz, there was such thing as monads, which will be important later. What are monads? In usual terminology, monad an means a singular unit, anything, but in Leibniz' philosophy it has a similar yet slightly different meaning, a singular and indivisible (so infinitely simple) unit, whether it be an atom or person. We can see that "mono" is one (other examples of...