From Pre-established Harmony to Physical Influx: Leibniz's Reception in Eighteenth Century Germany

摘要

In the present essay I shall be concerned with the reception of Leibniz in Germany during approximately the first half of the eighteenth century. Since others (Barber 1955, Beck 1969, Saine 1987, Uberweg 1984-1902, Wundt 1945, Wilson 1994, Zeller 1873) have already presented overviews of the reception of Leibniz's philosophy as a whole during this period I shall focus on how one of Leibniz's most important and peculiar doctrines, namely Pre-established Harmony, was received in this period. In the first section I shall briefly resent leibniz's views on Pre-established Harmony Germany, Christian Wolff.