Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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A “universal genius”—mathematician, scientist, diplomat, historian, ecumenist, and philosopher—Leibniz was “the pathfinder of the German Enlightenment.” For the last forty years of his life, he worked for the House of Hanover, principally as the royal librarian. A devout Lutheran, Leibniz, in an age of increasing determinism and materialism, strove to envision a worldview that was rational, hopeful, and spiritual. Reality for Leibniz was composed of an infinite number of individual spiritual substances (“monads,” from the Greek word meaning...
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