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@ TELEGRAM: “EVERYTHING THAT IS POSSIBLE DEMANDS TO EXIST.“ GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ WAS A GERMAN POLYMATH ACTIVE AS A MATHEMATICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, SCIENTIST, AND DIPLOMAT. HE IS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN BOTH THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS. HE WROTE WORKS ON PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, ETHICS, POLITICS, LAW, HISTORY, AND PHILOLOGY. LEIBNIZ ALSO MADE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, AND ANTICIPATED NOTIONS THAT SURFACED MUCH LATER IN PROBABILITY THEORY, BIOLOGY, MEDICINE, GEOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, LINGUISTICS, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. AS A PHILOSOPHER, HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST REPRESENTATIVES OF 17TH-CENTURY RATIONALISM AND IDEALISM. AS A MATHEMATICIAN, HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT WAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAIN IDEAS OF DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, INDEPENDENTLY OF ISAAC NEWTON'S CONTEMPORANEOUS DEVELOPMENTS. IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, LEIBNIZ IS MOST NOTED FOR HIS OPTIMISM, I.E. HIS CONCLUSION THAT OUR WORLD IS, IN A QUALIFIED SENSE, THE BEST POSSIBLE WORLD THAT GOD COULD HAVE CREATED, A VIEW SOMETIMES LAMPOONED BY OTHER THINKERS, SUCH AS VOLTAIRE IN HIS SATIRICAL NOVELLA CANDIDE. LEIBNIZ, ALONG WITH RENÉ DESCARTES AND BARUCH SPINOZA, WAS ONE OF THE THREE GREAT EARLY MODERN RATIONALISTS. HIS PHILOSOPHY ALSO ASSIMILATES ELEMENTS OF THE SCHOLASTIC TRADITION, NOTABLY THE ASSUMPTION THAT SOME SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY CAN BE ACHIEVED BY REASONING FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES OR PRIOR DEFINITIONS. THE WORK OF LEIBNIZ ANTICIPATED MODERN LOGIC AND STILL INFLUENCES CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY, SUCH AS ITS ADOPTED USE OF THE TERM “POSSIBLE WORLD“ TO DEFINE MODAL NOTIONS. #leibniz #historyandphilosophy #monads #theodicy #formallogic #symbolicthought #metaphysics #monadology #optimism #gottfriedwilhelmleibniz #innabesedina #westernphilosophy #rationalism #pluralisticidealism #knowledge #cognition #studying #educational #education #educationalvideo #interesting #interestingthoughts #thoughts #selfgrowth #selfdevelopment #selfimprovement #quotes #smart #smartquotes #clever 00:00 GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ 02:06 PHILOSOPHY / MONADS 04:23 THEODICY AND OPTIMISM 06:56 DISCOURSE ON METAPHYSICS 08:43 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF METAPHYSICS 09:03 SYMBOLIC THOUGHT 10:01 FORMAL LOGIC ALL IMAGES IN THIS VIDEO ARE IMAGES IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. I USE TO THESE IMAGES FOR VIDEOS. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS PHRASES / QUOTES BY GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ.
