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Letter to Jean Gallois (Dec. 1678)
On An Instrument Or Great Art Of Thinking (Mar./Apr. 1679?)
Letter to Abbé Claude Nicaise (6/16 August 1699)
Critical remarks on Stephen Nye's The System of Grace and Free-Will (27 Mar. 1705)
Letter to Maturinus Veyssière La Croze (8 Oct. 1707)
& others...
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LEIBNIZ LINKS:
LEIBNIZ - AN UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHER Leibnizian resources
LEIBNIZ RESOURCES AT UMKC Leibniz electronic mailing list, maintained by George Gale
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ Leibniz biography and weblinks
LEIBNIZ'S ETHICS An article by Andrew Youpa, from the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS Donald Rutherford's site
EARLY MODERN TEXTS Jonathan Bennett's collection of texts from early modern philosophy
LEIBNIZ BRASIL
Brazilian Leibniz site, with Portugese translations and Leibniz links
SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA LEIBNIZ Spanish Leibniz Society
EPISTEME LINKS Philosophy resources on the internet
LEIBNIZ LINKS - SWANSEA UNIVERSITY Links to sites on Leibniz & others
PHILOSOPHY ORG Leibniz links
NODEWORKS DIRECTORY Philosophy links
HUMBUL Humanities research hub
AN INTRODUCTION TO LEIBNIZ A discussion of the validity and meaning of the major Leibnizian points of argument
PHILOSOPHY ON THE INTERNET A huge web directory, with some Leibniz links
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Encyclopedia entry
PHILOSOPHY SITES ON THE WEB Links to sites on Leibniz, Locke, Kant etc.
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Welcome to leibniz-translations.com. On this site you will find English translations of various papers by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), including many not previously translated. The site is usually updated every 3 months or so (last update: February 2008).
There are currently translations of around 150 texts on this site. The full list is given further down this page. Alternatively, if you are searching for texts within a particular area of Leibniz's thought, select one of the options below for a list of available texts in that area. A keyword search will be available soon.
Texts on this site fall into one of the following categories:
METAPHYSICS
MIND, BODY AND SOUL
FREE WILL AND NECESSITY
SCIENCE
POLITICS, LAW AND ETHICS
THEOLOGY
Please note: The translations presented here are original and therefore copyrighted. If passages are quoted (in essays, dissertations, theses or other works, written or otherwise) then references must be made in the proper academic way. That is, the quoted passages must be attributed to the author, and the source of the translation (i.e. this website) must be cited. No more than 5% of these translations can be reproduced elsewhere without permission of the author.
ESSAYS, PAPERS AND PROJECTS: (in chronological order)
*** = new addition
Trinity. Mind. (spring - autumn 1671)
The Philosopher's Confession (autumn 1672 - winter 1672/3?)
The Author Of Sin (1673?)
On Polygamy (4 Oct. 1675)
Notes On Henry More's Enchiridion Ethicum (spring - summer 1676?)
Notes On Metaphysics (Dec. 1676)
Cartesianism, The Antechamber Of The True Philosophy (1677?)
Demonstration That God Understands All Possibles (1677?)
On The Necessity Of Choosing The Best (1677?)
On The Obligation To Believe (1st half of 1677?)
On Purgatory (Jan. 1677)
Notes On Henry More's The Immortality Of The Soul (Jan. 1677 - Jan. 1678?)
The Distinction Of Mind And Body (early 1677 - early 1678?)
Inoppotune Reflections On Human Misery (1677-1716?)
How The Soul Acts In The Body (early 1677 - early 1678?)
On Distinct Perception (Oct. 1677 - Dec. 1678 (?))
Proof Of A Necessary Being (Jan. 1678)
Aphorisms Concerning Happiness, Wisdom, Charity And Justice (summer - winter 1678/9)
There Is Only A Single God (1678 - 1686?)
Dialogue Between A Theologian And A Misosophist (1st half 1678 - 1st half 1679?)
Analysis Of Abbé Lanion's Meditations On Metaphysics (summer 1678 - winter 1680/1681?)
On Natural Law (summer 1678 - winter 1680/1)
Dialogue Between Theophile And Polidore (summer - autumn 1679?)
On Public Happiness (1680?)
On Freedom And Grace (summer 1680 - summer 1684?)
On Necessity And Contingency (summer 1680 - summer 1684?)
On Consciousness And Memory (1683-5(?))
On The Animal's Soul (1683 - 1685?)
God Is Not The Soul Of The World (summer 1683 - winter 1685/1686?)
Pleasure. An Observation Against Descartes (summer 1683 - winter 1685/1686?)
Notes On Malebranche's Treatise On Nature And Grace (May 1684 - end 1684?)
Definitions (1685-1696?)
On The Trinity (autumn 1685 (?)) ***
Theological Propositions (autumn 1685 - spring 1686 (?)) ***
On Rejecting The Particular Will Of God (winter 1685/1686 (?))
A Vindication Of Divine Justice And Human Freedom (early 1686?)
On The General Relation Of All Things (Apr. - Oct. 1686 (?))
If A Necessary Being Is Possible, It Follows That It Exists (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))
On The Cessation Of Distinct Thoughts Without The Extinction Of The Soul (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))
On The System Of Occasional Causes (Mar. 1689 - Mar. 1690 (?))
The Origin Of Contingent Truths (summer 1689?)
Notes On Isaac Papin's The Vanity Of The Sciences (after 1690?)
Protogaea §§1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 20, 25, 26, 35 & 39 (1690-91)
On Mary Stuart And Popess Joan (not before 1693)
On The Ignorant And The Able (c. 1694)
On Reason And Divination (1694-97?)
On Man, Beatitude, God And Christ (1694-1696?)
On Progress To Infinity (c. 1694-1696)
Notes On William Penn (1695)
On The Certainty Of Salvation (17/27 Mar. 1695)
Double Infinity In Pascal And Monad (after 1695?)
Theodicaea (1695-97)
Demonstrations Concerning The Immense And Eternal Universe (1701)
Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary , article 'Origen' (1702)
Notes on Pierre Bayle's Dictionary , article 'Paulicians' (1702) ***
Explanation Of Binary Arithmetic (1703)
Notes On Isaac Jacquelot's The Conformity Of Faith With Reason (early 1704?)
Note On The Rocks Which Contain Dried Out Plants And Fish (1706)
On A Talking Dog (1706)
Draft Preface To The Theodicy (early 1707?)
Preface To Soner's Book On Hell (1708)
Revolution (1715)
LETTERS: (in chronological order)
In addition to all of the above, portions of a further 16 texts - offcuts from my anthology Shorter Leibniz Texts - are available by clicking here or the picture of the front cover to the book (at the top of this page).