Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Art of Controversies /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dascal, Marcelo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; 60
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Political science.; Religion > Philosophy.; Linguistics.; Social sciences.; History of Philosophy.; Linguistics, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of Religion.

Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved through painstaking efforts to establish a fruitful cri...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Vices of Mingled Disputes
• The Controversy of Controversies
• The Religion of a Peasant
• The Elements of Thinking
• The Balance of Law
• Can there be an Obligation to Believe?
• Controversies on Sacred Matters
• The Judge of Controversies
• Towards a Heuristics for Litigation
• The Method of Jurists and the Method of Doctors
• Interpretation and Argumentation in Law
• Towards a Heuristics for Discovery
• Estimating the Uncertain
• Towards a Numerical Universal Language
• The Encyclopedia and the Method of Discovery
• Towards a Heuristics for Persuading
• The Other’s Place
• Persuading a Skeptic
• On Controversies
• On Principles
• Two Prefaces to the General Science
• to a Secret Encyclopedia
• On the Creation of a New Logic
• New Openings
• Theology and the Principle of Contradiction
• Changing Religion
• Methods of Reunion
• An Ars Characteristica for the Rational Sciences
• ‘Characterizing’ Definitions and Demonstrating Propositions
• Advancing the Art of Discovery
• Correspondence with the Hamburg Jungians
• The Philosophical Sin Controversy
• Confronting the Catholic Hardliners
• Defining what Pertains to Faith
• Judgment of a Catholic Doctor
• Presumptions and Fictions in Legal Argumentation
• The ‘Method of Establishments’
• The Achievements of Logic and Beyond
• Pacts, Contracts, and Natural Law
• Approaching the Church of England
• Dialectic Principles and their Application
• The History and Tasks of Logic
• Bold Conjectures
• The Dynamics of Formulating and Expounding the System
• The Use of Logic Against Skepticism.