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Leibniz, God, and necessity /
"Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology', and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow from it. Grounding many of Leibniz's m...
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Cambridge :
C. U. P,
2013.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018842-t.html http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/17081/cover/9780521117081.jpg http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018842-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018842-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Descartes's arguments for God's existence; 2. The ontological argument, the principle of sufficient reason and Leibniz's doctrine of striving possibles; 3. Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz; 4. Leibniz on compossibility and possible worlds; 5. Molina on divine foreknowledge; 6. Leibniz on middle knowledge; 7. Leibniz on God's knowledge of counterfactuals.