First page of the original manuscript of Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics, composed in 1686
Author
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Original title
Discours de métaphysique
Country
Germany
Language
French
Subject
Metaphysics
Published
1846
Media type
Print
The Discourse on Metaphysics (French: Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy concerning physical substance, motion and resistance of bodies, and God's role within the universe. It is one of the few texts presenting in a consistent form the earlier philosophy of Leibniz.
The Discourse is closely connected to the epistolary discussion which he carried with Antoine Arnauld.[1] However Leibniz refrained from sending the full text and it remained unpublished until the mid 19th century.[2] Arnauld received only an abridged version in 37 points which resumed whole paragraphs and steered their discussion.
^Sleigh R., Leibniz and Arnauld, New haven: Yale, 1990.
^The first edition (in 1846 by Pertz) was from a copy but later the original manuscript was found and Henri Lestrienne published it in 1907; now it is printed in the Akademie Ausgabe, Reihe VI, Vierter Band, p. 1529
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