The Shorter Leibniz Texts A Collection of New Translations

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This anthology of new Leibniz translations brings many Leibniz texts into the English-speaking academic domain for the first time, and provides new, concise texts that are fully representative of Leibniz's thought

Metaphysics
Creation	p. 29
On first truths	p. 29
On the reason why these things exist rather than other things	p. 30
On the ultimate origination of things	p. 31
Letter to Johann Christian Schulenburg	p. 38
Letter to Andre Morell	p. 39
Truth and substance	p. 40
On the perfect concept of substances	p. 40
The principle of human knowledge	p. 41
Remarks on Mr. Arnauld's letter concerning my proposition : that the individual concept of each person contains once and for all everything that will ever happen to him	p. 43
Letter to Antoine Arnauld	p. 47
Logical-metaphysical principles	p. 48
On body and substance truly one	p. 52
Letter to Pierre Dangicourt	p. 54
Mind, body and soul
Souls and their nature	p. 61
Difficulties concerning the nature and origin of souls	p. 61
Souls are either created every day or are coeval with the world	p. 62
On the creation of souls and the origin of minds	p. 62
On the souls of men and beasts	p. 63
The relationship between soul and body	p. 68
On the system of occasional causes	p. 68
New system of the nature of the communication of substances, as well as the union that exists between the soul and the body	p. 68
Clarification of the 'new system of the communication of substances'	p. 77
The fate of souls	p. 79
Letter to Electress Sophie	p. 79
Letter to Electress Sophie	p. 81
Free will and necessity
The nature of free will	p. 91
On free will	p. 91
On freedom and spontaneity	p. 94
Conversation about freedom and fate	p. 95
Contingency and necessity	p. 104
Middle knowledge	p. 104
On freedom from necessity in choosing	p. 105
A note on freedom and necessity	p. 110
On contingency	p. 110
Notes on Pierre Bayle's Reply to the Questions from a Provincial	p. 113
Science
Matter and body	p. 119
A demonstration against atoms taken from the contact of atoms	p. 119
Whether the essence of body consists in extension	p. 123
Letter to Johann Bernoulli	p. 126
Letter to Burcher de Volder	p. 126
Letter to Thomas Burnett	p. 128
Letter to Burcher de Volder	p. 129
The laws of nature	p. 131
On a general principle useful in explaining the laws of nature through a consideration of the divine wisdom	p. 131
Letter to Pierre Bayle	p. 134
Letter to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	p. 136
Biology	p. 138
On the origin of fossils	p. 138
Protogaea (selections)	p. 140
Letter from G. W. Leibniz	p. 142
Law and ethics
Law	p. 149
Preface to the Diplomatic Code of People's Rights	p. 149
On the death penalty	p. 152
Expiation	p. 154
Virtue	p. 157
On generosity	p. 157
Letter to Electress Sophie	p. 160
Definitions	p. 164
The true piety	p. 164
Pleasure and happiness	p. 166
On the happy life	p. 166
Happiness	p. 167
A dialogue	p. 170
Theology
The existence of God	p. 181
On the reality of truth	p. 181
On necessary or eternal truths	p. 182
A proof of the existence of God from his essence	p. 183
Letter to the editor of the Journal de Trevoux	p. 187
Optimism and meliorism	p. 189
The elements of true piety	p. 189
On the continuous increase in the perfection of the world	p. 195
Whether the world increases in perfection	p. 196
Letter to Andre Morell	p. 197
Letter to Louis Bourguet	p. 198
Letter to Louis Bourguet	p. 198
Letter to Louis Bourguet	p. 199
Letter to Louis Bourguet	p. 200
Sin and evil	p. 201
On sin and original sin	p. 201
Can the bad outcomes of wicked actions be ascribed to wickedness?	p. 204
Letter to Isaac Jacquelot	p. 207
Letter to Louis Bourguet	p. 207
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