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Abstract LEIBNIZ AND THE TWO SOPHIES is a critical edition of all of the philosophically important material from the correspondence between the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his two royal patronesses, Electress Sophie of Hanover (1630-1714), and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1668-1705).
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Lloyd Strickland
- 2011
Jun 23, 2011 · Leibniz and the Two Sophies is a critical edition of the philosophical correspondence between the seventeenth-century philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and his two royal patronesses, Electress Sophie of Hanover and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia. In his letters, Leibniz expounds upon such subjects as the nature and operation of the mind, innate knowledge, the afterlife ...
This reviewer notes that the major philosophical locus developed in the correspondence is Leibniz's theory of individual substances (monads) which he explains over and over again (esp. pp. 197, 203-205, 210) until Sophie finally politely allows him to understand there are more important concerns than speculating about individual substance (p. 203).
In this correspondence, Leibniz expounds in a very accessible way his views on topics such as the nature and operation of the mind, innate knowledge, the afterlife, ethics, and human nature. The correspondence also contains the only known philosophical writings by Sophie and Sophie Charlotte, and thus provides a valuable insight into their views and concerns, as well as throwing light on their ...
- Lloyd Strickland
In his introduction, Lloyd Strickland proposes that Sophie, Electress of Hanover, and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, found consolation in the idea of divine justice. Too long themselves unfairly dismissed as philosophical lightweights, proper justice may now be given to their views through this edition of their private correspondences with Leibniz. Appearing for the first ...
Paper, $37.00. Lloyd Strickland has produced the first volume in English dedicated to Leibniz's epistolary exchanges with Electress Sophie of Hanover (1630-1714) and her daughter, Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1668-1705). He pits the volume against a scholarly tradition that has viewed the two Sophies as either, at best, significant ...
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Leibniz and the Two Sophies: The Philosophical Correspondence. Edited and translated by Lloyd Strickland (Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2011) pp. 468. Reviewed by Paul Lodge, Oxford University L eibniz and the Two Sophies is primarily a selection from the correspondence between Leibniz and Sophie, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714) and the corre -
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