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Nuevos ensayos sobre el entendimiento humano

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Obra que se cuenta sin duda entre las más profundas e inclasificables del pensamiento filosófico europeo, "Nuevos ensayos sobre el entendimiento humano" quizá sea la más representativa de la voracidad intelectual de G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716). En ella aparecen múltiples referencias a los más variados campos del saber y a los más diversos autores sin por ello ceder un ápice de profundidad en la forma de pensar sobre unos y otros. El pensamiento de Leibniz arranca de un diálogo con los problemas y autores de su época, pretendiendo constituirse en la filosofía de la reunificación de la cristiandad. De ahí su atención a Spinoza y sus intentos frustrados de dialogar con Locke, cuyo "Ensayo sobre el entendimiento humano" (1690) suscitó la redacción entre el verano de 1703 y enero de 1704 del grueso de la obra (que sin embargo no fue publicada hasta 1765, póstumamente, por prohibición del duque Georg Ludwig de Hannover y ulterior rey de Inglaterra, Jorge I), en la que Leibniz contrapone las diversas concepciones de su época sobre el conocimiento, las ideas y los lenguajes, y presenta la suya propia en forma dialogada. La presente edición ha sido revisada y actualizada por Javier Echeverría con la colaboración de Mary Sol de Mora. Edición de Javier Echeverría Ezponda Addenda de Mary Sol de Mora

832 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2021

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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German philosopher and mathematician Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz or Leibnitz invented differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton and proposed an optimist metaphysical theory that included the notion that we live in "the best of all possible worlds."

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a polymath, occupies a prominent place in the history. Most scholars think that Leibniz developed and published ever widely used notation. Only in the 20th century, his law of continuity and transcendental homogeneity found implementation in means of nonstandard analysis. He of the most prolific in the field of mechanical calculators. He worked on adding automatic multiplication and division to calculator of Blaise Pascal, meanwhile first described a pinwheel in 1685, and used it in the first mass-produced mechanical arithmometer. He also refined the binary number system, the foundation of virtually all digital computers.

Leibniz most concluded that God ably created our universe in a restricted sense, Voltaire often lampooned the idea. Leibniz alongside the great René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza advocated 17th-century rationalism. Applying reason of first principles or prior definitions, rather than empirical evidence, produced conclusions in the scholastic tradition, and the work of Leibniz anticipated modern analytic logic.

Leibniz made major contributions to technology, and anticipated that which surfaced much later in probability, biology, medicine, geology, psychology, linguistics, and computer science. He wrote works on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, and philology. Various learned journals, tens of thousands of letters, and unpublished manuscripts scattered contributions of Leibniz to this vast array of subjects. He wrote in several languages but primarily Latin and French. No one completely gathered the writings of Leibniz.

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