Abstract:Starting from Leibniz's complaint that Newton's views seem to make God the soul of the world, this paper examines Leibniz's critical stance more generally towards God as the soul of the world and related theses. A preliminary task is determining what the related theses are. There are more of these than might have been thought. Once the relations are established, it becomes clear how pervasive the various guises of the issue of God as the soul of the world are in Leibniz's thought and how central they are in hi… Show more
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