Philosophical Writings - Everyman Paperback Classics Author:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz A brilliant mathematical physicist, Leibniz strove to place science on religious foundations, outlining an active, organic and spiritual world composed of free individual substances harmoniously working out God's purposes. In doing so this major rationalist philosopher revolutionized logic, proposed notions too startling to publish, and lai... more »d bare scientific assumptions that many of us still possess.« less