The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy (The Yale Leibniz Series)

**The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies** The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface 8 List of Abbreviations 10 A Note on the Texts and Translation 12 Introduction 14 1 The Importance of Medicine in Early Modern Philosophy 14 2 The Scope and Development of Leibniz's Medical Thought 20 3 Stahl's Views on Medicine and Organism 27 4 Key Concepts and Figures in the Exchange 39 5 The Texts of the Exchange 43 6 Tone and Style of the Controversy 45 7 The Arguments About Organic Beings 47 8 The Arguments About Organism and Mechanism 54 9 The Arguments About Medical Theory 63 10 The Arguments About the Principle of Life 71 Negotium otiosum 92 1 Stahl's Preface 96 2 Leibniz's Animadversions Concerning Certain Assertions of the True Medical Theory 108 3 Stahl's Enodations 144 4 Stahl's Summary of the Principal Points of Doubt 310 5 Leibniz's Exceptions and Stahl's Replies 338 Textual Notes 502 Editorial Notes 506 Index of Names 526 A 526 B 526 C 526 D 526 E 526 F 526 G 526 H 526 J 527 K 527 L 527 M 527 N 527 O 527 P 527 R 527 S 527 T 527 V 527 W 527 Index of Subjects 528 A 528 B 528 C 528 D 529 E 529 F 530 G 530 H 530 I 530 L 531 M 531 N 532 O 532 P 532 R 533 S 533 T 534 V 534 The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors Francois Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship. The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship.  G.w. Leibniz ; Translated, Edited, And With An Introduction By François Duchesneau And Justin E.h. Smith. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 415-434) And Indexes. Original Latin Text With English Translation On Facing Pages; Introduction And Notes In English.