Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical ExpositionDewey, John
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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition
Dewey, John
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
Idea of Activity or Entelechy 39
Idea of Rationality 40
Idea of Organism 42
CHAPTER III.
The Problem and its Solution.
Unity of Leibniz's Thought 43
Relation of Universal and Individual 44
Descartes' Treatment of this Question 46
Spinoza's Treatment of it 48
Leibniz's Solution 50
All Unity is Spiritual 53
And Active 54
Is a Representative Individual 56
Contrast of Monad and Atom 58
Pre-established Harmony reconciles Universal and Individual 59
Meaning of this Doctrine 62
CHAPTER IV.
Locke and Leibniz.--Innate Ideas.
Necessity of Preliminary Account of Leibniz's Philosophy 66
Locke's Empiricism 67
Leibniz's Comments upon Locke 69
The Controversies of Leibniz 72
The Essay on the Human Understanding 73
Locke's Denial of Innate Ideas 75
Depending upon
(1) His Mechanical Conception of Innate Ideas 77
Leibniz undermines this by substituting an Organic Conception 80
And upon
(2) His Mechanical Conception of Consciousness 84
Leibniz refutes this by his Theory of Unconscious Intelligence 85
CHAPTER V.
Sensation and Experience.
Importance of Doctrine regarding Sensation 87
The Two Elements of Locke's Notion of Sensation 89
Its Relation to the Object producing it: Primary and Secondary
Qualities 91
Locke criticized as to his Account
(1) Of the Production of Sensation 92
(2) Of its Function in Knowledge 95
The Meaning of Physical Causation 97
Bearing of this Doctrine upon Relation of Soul and Body 98
Criticism of Locke's Dualism 98
Leibniz's Monism 101
Summary of Discussion 103
Leibniz on the Relation of Sensations to Objects
occasioning them 105
Nature of Experience 106
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