Leibniz And The Rational Order Of Nature

The most up-to-date and comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who proposed the theory that nature is an order designed by God to maximize opportunities for the exercise of reason. Making considerable use of unpublished manuscript sources, author Donald Rutherford seeks to demonstrate the systematic unity of Leibniz's thought.

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Among its other virtues, it makes considerable use of unpublished manuscript sources. The book seeks to demonstrate the systematic unity of Leibniz's thought, in which theodicy, ethics, metaphysics and natural philosophy cohere. The key, underlying idea of the system is the conception of nature as an order designed by God to maximize the opportunities for the exercise of reason.