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Author Khamara, Edward J.

Title Space, time, and theology in the Leibniz-Newton controversy / Edward J. Khamara
Published Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 157 pages) : illustrations
Series Process thought ; v. 6
Process thought ; v. 6.
Contents Editorial Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter ILeibniz's Last Controversy with theNewtonians; Chapter IINewtonian Absolutism; Chapter IIILeibnizian Relativism; Chapter IVOn Properties; Chapter VThe Identity of Indiscernibles; Chapter VIThe Nutcracker at Work; Chapter VIILeibniz's Verificationist Argument; Chapter VIIIA Digression on Boethius:Eternity and Omniscience; Chapter IXOmniscience: Leibniz versus Clarke; Chapter XOmniscience and Omnipotence:Clarke and Arnauld against Leibniz; Bibliography
Summary In the famous Correspondence with Clarke, which took place during the last year of Leibniz's life, Leibniz advanced several arguments purporting to refute the absolute theory of space and time that was held by Newton and his followers. The main aim of this book is to reassess Leibniz's attack on the Newtonian theory in so far as he relied on the principle of the identity of indiscernibles. The theological side of the controversy is not ignored but isolated and discussed in the last three chapters, which deal with problems connected with the notions of omnipotence and omniscience
Notes Reworking of texts previously published
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157)
Notes English
Subject Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 -- Adversaries
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Adversaries
SUBJECT Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 fast
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 fast
Subject Space and time.
God -- Omnipotence.
God -- Omniscience.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Enemies
God -- Omnipotence
God -- Omniscience
Space and time
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007310470
ISBN 9783110328301
3110328305
3110327996
9783110327991