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Appendix Three: From Ontology to Ethics: Leibniz vs. Eckhard

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In Appendix Three the author examines how Leibniz re-established classical ontology of ethical foundations, by analysing his debate with Eckhard.

Original Italian edition: Dall’ontologia all’etica: Leibniz contro Eckhard, in AA.VV., Philosophie de la religion entre éthique et ontologie, a cura di M.M. Olivetti, [Biblioteca dell’ “Archivio di Filosofia,” vol.14], CEDAM, Padova 1996, pp.623–631.

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  1. 1.

    The texts discussed here can be found in GP I 211–270.

  2. 2.

    Cf. GP I 212215.

  3. 3.

    GP I 212; cf. also 220, 223; GP IV 359 (Eng. trans. PhPL 386), 402, 405.

  4. 4.

    GP I 214.

  5. 5.

    Cf. GP I 221.

  6. 6.

    Ibidem.

  7. 7.

    Ibidem, italics mine.

  8. 8.

    Ibidem.

  9. 9.

    GP I 216.

  10. 10.

    Ibidem.

  11. 11.

    GP I 221.

  12. 12.

    Ibidem.

  13. 13.

    Ibidem.

  14. 14.

    Ibidem, italics mine.

  15. 15.

    GP I 221222, italics mine.

  16. 16.

    Cf. GP I 225228.

  17. 17.

    GP I 228.

  18. 18.

    GP I 228229.

  19. 19.

    Cf. GP I 229.

  20. 20.

    Cf. GP I 230232.

  21. 21.

    GP I 232.

  22. 22.

    GP I 234.

  23. 23.

    GP I 266; Eng. trans. PhPL 177.

  24. 24.

    GP VII 289.

  25. 25.

    GP I 216.

  26. 26.

    GP I 214.

  27. 27.

    GP I 222.

  28. 28.

    Ibidem.

  29. 29.

    GP VII 302; Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 149.

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Poma, A. (2012). Appendix Three: From Ontology to Ethics: Leibniz vs. Eckhard. In: The Impossibility and Necessity of Theodicy. Studies in German Idealism, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5031-9_11

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