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 POLITICS, LAW AND ETHICS 

On the topics of politics, law and ethics, the following texts are available (arranged under sub-categories):

Law and government

  1. On Polygamy (4 Oct. 1675)
  2. On Natural Law (summer 1678 - winter 1680/1)
  3. On Public Happiness (1680?)
  4. Leibniz to Pierre de Falaiseau (8 July 1705)
  5. Leibniz to Abbé de St. Pierre (7 Feb. 1715)

Virtue

  1. Notes On Henry More's Enchiridion Ethicum (spring - summer 1676?)
  2. Aphorisms Concerning Happiness, Wisdom, Charity And Justice (summer - winter 1678/9)
  3. Leibniz to André Morell (10/20 Dec. 1696)
  4. Leibniz to André Morell (31 May/10 June 1697)
  5. Leibniz to Electress Sophie (mid-Aug. (?) 1697)
  6. Leibniz to Electress Sophie (6 Feb. 1706)

Pleasure and happiness

  1. Inoppotune Reflections On Human Misery (1677-1716?)
  2. Aphorisms Concerning Happiness, Wisdom, Charity And Justice (summer - winter 1678/9)
  3. Leibniz to ???: Letter on Cartesianism (1679)
  4. On Public Happiness (1680?)
  5. Pleasure. An Observation Against Descartes (summer 1683 - winter 1685/1686?)
  6. Notes On Isaac Papin's The Vanity Of The Sciences (after 1690?)
  7. Notes On William Penn (1695)
  8. Leibniz to Nicolas Malebranche (13/23 Mar. 1699)
  9. Leibniz to Marie de Brinon (15/25 May 1699)
  10. Leibniz to Christian Wolff (selections, Feb. - Dec. 1705)
  11. Leibniz to Princess Caroline of Ansbach (18 Mar. 1705)