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Leibniz
As both a mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) is widely credited with the discovery of the binary system, the foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures. His philosophy looks back to Scholastic tradition and anticipates modern logic and analysis. Read from his many writings, translated into modern-day English: New Essays on Human Understanding, Correspondence with Clarke, Freedom and Possibility, Meditations of Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas, Contingency, First Truths, Discourse on Metaphysics, Real-life Dialog on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil, Essay on Dynamics, New System, The Ultimate Origin of Things, Nature Itself, Making the Case for God, Principals of Nature and Grace, Monadology.
Read the writings of early modern philosophers as translated by Jonathan Bennett, Professor of Philosophy.
5/17/2008
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