Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (n.) was far from achieving what he flattered himself he had done — gaining insight into the possibility of so sublime an ideal…

Immanuel Kant on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Isaac Newton

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held space to be a concept of the external relations of things.

Recast in definition form from: “… Space is not a concept of external relations, as Leibniz …”

needed God to mediate between his substances, since from their isolated existence alone their community rightly seemed incomprehensible.

Recast in definition form from: “… their existence alone this community rightly seemed to him incomprehensible. …”

was far from achieving what he flattered himself he had done — gaining insight into the possibility of so sublime an ideal being.

Recast in definition form from: “… achieved what he flattered himself he had done, namely, gaining …”

compared with Kant is a poor rushlight, and one of Kant's chief merits is to have delivered us from his pre-established harmonies and monads.

Recast in definition form from: “Now, compared with Kant, Leibnitz is a poor rushlight. Kant is a master mind, to whom mankind is indebted for the discovery of never-to-be-forgotten truths. One of his chief merits is precisely, to have delivered us from Leibnitz and his subtle ties: from pre-established harmonies, monads and identitas indiscernibilium.”

made a shameful declaration: philosophy may create new concepts, provided they do not overthrow the "established sentiments."

Recast in definition form from: “… concepts, provided that they do not overthrow the "established sentiments"). …”

goes as far as Hegel and further: there is more orgiastic, bacchanalian delirium in him, because the ground plays a greater role.

Recast in definition form from: “… greater depth in his case, more orgiastic or bacchanalian delirium …”

went further than anyone into sufficient reason, and better than anyone kept up the illusion that it obeys identity — immersing thought in difference only to save a Cartesian natural light.

Recast in definition form from: “… better able to immerse thought in the element of difference …”

was the first important theoretician of the event, because compossibility cannot be reduced to identity and contradiction.

Recast in definition form from: “… for this reason the first important theoretician of the event …”

Louis XIV

alchemy

Monadology

Baruch Spinoza

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entire intellectual system rests on turning a logical rule upside down: "whatever is not in the general concept is not in the particulars either" — and falls with it.

Recast in definition form from: “… would read: "Whatever is not contained in a general concept …”

took appearances for things in themselves, and so his principle of the identity of indiscernibles could not be disputed — except that for objects of the senses, space itself already supplies multiplicity.

Recast in definition form from: “… Leibniz took the appearances for things in themselves, thus for …”

intellectualized the appearances, just as Locke sensualized the concepts of the understanding: each great man held to only one source of knowledge and made the other a mere confuser or orderer of the first.

Recast in definition form from: “… intellectualized the appearances, just as Locke totally sensitivized the concepts …”

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