Main Contributions
He is mainly remembered because he was a German philosopher, mathematician and political adviser, of the Age of Reason. As a philosopher he went along with Renè Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, which was one of the major figures of the Continental Rationalism movement, main opposition to the British Empiricist school of thought, of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that there were many universes and that we live in the best one. Even though this idea seems pretty abstract and ridiculous, it was a pretty accurate since he had more interest in less abstract fields, such as empirical physics and jurisprudence.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that there were many universes and that we live in the best one. Even though this idea seems pretty abstract and ridiculous, it was a pretty accurate since he had more interest in less abstract fields, such as empirical physics and jurisprudence.
He is known for his contributions is mathematics, by creating calculus and of the binary system. He also had contributions to physics and anticipated notions, that were then explained in a clearer way much later in other sciences like: biology, medicine, geology, psychology, as well as writing on politics such as laws, ethics, history, etc.
He was one of the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and is remembered as the last “universal genius”. He had important contributions in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence and history.
He was one of the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and is remembered as the last “universal genius”. He had important contributions in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence and history.
His Best Work- "Discours de métaphysique"
One of the most influential, and important works, that he wrote was called "Discours de métaphysique". This work takes the fields of theology, physics, mathematics, and philosophy to explain how the world around us works. This was majorly important during that period of time called the Enlightenment, because he came to several conclusions about the existence of God and the purpose of life through the pairing of very distinct fields, which he used in his reasoning. He demonstrates how during the enlightenment there was a need to understand the reasoning behind everything and how to do so there was a constant exchange of ideas and opinions throughout all the society, resulting in very eccentric pairings of fields such as mathematics with philosophy.