The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence: Together With Extracts From Newton's Principia And Opticks
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At the dawn of the eighteenth century, two of history's greatest intellectual titans—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, acting as Isaac Newton's proxy—engaged in a fierce epistolary battle that cut to the very heart of space, time, God, and the nature of the universe. The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence presents this landmark exchange in full, supplemented by carefully chosen extracts from Newton's foundational works, the Principia and the Opticks, providing readers with the essential context needed to appreciate the full weight of each argument. Edited with a scholarly introduction and detailed notes by H. G. Alexander, this edition renders one of philosophy's most consequential debates fully accessible to the modern reader, tracing the fault lines between Leibniz's rationalist metaphysics and the Newtonian framework of absolute space and time. The correspondence stands as a defining document in the history of both philosophy and science, illuminating the profound tensions between Continental and British thought at a pivotal moment in intellectual history. Alexander's editorial apparatus guides the reader through the dense philosophical terrain with precision and clarity, making visible the deeper stakes—questions about the nature of God's relationship to the world, the validity of the principle of sufficient reason, and the foundations of natural philosophy—that animate every exchange. A work that continues to challenge and reward, this correspondence remains as urgently relevant to students of philosophy, physics, and intellectual history as it was on the day the first letter was written.
Author: H. G. Alexander
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, two of history's greatest intellectual titans—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, acting as Isaac Newton's proxy—engaged in a fierce epistolary battle that cut to the very heart of space, time, God, and the nature of the universe. The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence presents this landmark exchange in full, supplemented by carefully chosen extracts from Newton's foundational works, the Principia and the Opticks, providing readers with the essential context needed to appreciate the full weight of each argument. Edited with a scholarly introduction and detailed notes by H. G. Alexander, this edition renders one of philosophy's most consequential debates fully accessible to the modern reader, tracing the fault lines between Leibniz's rationalist metaphysics and the Newtonian framework of absolute space and time. The correspondence stands as a defining document in the history of both philosophy and science, illuminating the profound tensions between Continental and British thought at a pivotal moment in intellectual history. Alexander's editorial apparatus guides the reader through the dense philosophical terrain with precision and clarity, making visible the deeper stakes—questions about the nature of God's relationship to the world, the validity of the principle of sufficient reason, and the foundations of natural philosophy—that animate every exchange. A work that continues to challenge and reward, this correspondence remains as urgently relevant to students of philosophy, physics, and intellectual history as it was on the day the first letter was written.