Appendix Two: The Reasons of Reason According to Leibniz

Poma, Andrea

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Andrea Poma²

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In Appendix Two, the author takes an in-depth look at the significance of Leibniz’s religious rationalism and his conception of the relationship between faith and reason.

Original Italian edition: Le ragioni della ragione secondo Leibniz, in AA.VV., Filosofia della rivelazione, a cura di Marco M. Olivetti, [Biblioteca dell’ “Archivio di Filosofia,” vol.11], CEDAM, Padova 1994, pp. 221–231.

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Notes

1.
B. PASCAL, Mémorial, in IDEM, Oeuvres complètes, ed. J. CHEVALIER, Gallimard, Paris 1954, p. 554.
2.
Dt 6:5.
3.
B. PASCAL, Pensées, fr. 477 (ed. Brunschvicg fr. 277), in IDEM, op. cit., p. 1221.
4.
TS 13.
5.
T 67/91.
6.
GP VII 175; cf. GP III 12 f.; V 316, 45 l f./A VI/6 336,469 f.; VII 72, 143 f._; GRUA 117; COUT 225 f.; FdCL 281 f.
7.
GP II 567; cf. GP III 12 f., 161, 165 f.; V 451/A VI/6 469; VII 143 f._; GRUA 117; COUT 226; FdCL 282.
8.
FdCL 264. It is curious to note that this argument is exactly reiterated, although deprived of every association with moral judgement, by Jacob Bernays and, through him, by Hans Blumenberg: cf. H. BLUMENBERG, op. cit., p. 240.
9.
GP V 317/A VI/6 336.
10.
Cf. GP II 541; III 161, 165 f.; V 316 ff./A VI/6 336 f.
11.
Cf. GP II 541; GRUA 117.
12.
Cf. GP III 12 f., 172 f., 206; V 451/A VI/6 469 f.; GRUA 176 f._; TS 29.
13.
GP V 482/A VI/6 500; cf. GRUA 380.
14.
Cf. GP I 123 ff.
15.
TS 171.
16.
Cf. GP III 172; GRUA 176 ff._; TS 129, 171, 195.
17.
Cf. TS 11 ff. passim.
18.
GP VII 70.
19.
GP III 15.
20.
T 50/74.
21.
T 49 f./74.
22.
GP III 193 f.
23.
Cf. GRUA 69 ff.
24.
Cf. GP V 478 ff./A VI/6 495 ff.
25.
GP V 481/A VI/6 498.
26.
Cf. T 49/73.
27.
Cf. T 49/73, passim; cf. also GP V 185, 457/A VI/6 199, 475; GRUA 68.
28.
T 87/110.
29.
Cf. T 64/88.
30.
Cf. T 87/110.
31.
T 51/75.
32.
T 49/73; cf. T 84/107: “right reason.”
33.
Cf. T 84/107.
34.
T 72/96.
35.
Cf. T 64/88.
36.
Cf. T 50/74.
37.
T 98/120.
38.
Cf. GP III 278; FdCL 182.
39.
Cf. GP V 185/A VI/6 199.
40.
T 97/119.
41.
Cf. T 87/109; cf. also GP V 44, 130, 457/A VI/6 50, 142 f., 475 f.; VI 600 f. (Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 609), 611 (Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 217); VII 330 ff.
42.
T 49/74.
43.
Cf. T 84/107; cf. also GP III 291 (Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 285), 353, 660 (Eng. trans. DM 116); IV 453 (Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 60); VI 453; VII 111.
44.
Cf. T 73/96, passim.
45.
Cf. GP IV 453; Eng. trans. Phil. Ess. 59.
46.
Cf. T 51/75, passim; GRUA 68.
47.
Cf. above, Chap. 3, Sect. 1.
48.
T 188/206 f.

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Poma, A. (2012). Appendix Two: The Reasons of Reason According to Leibniz. In: The Impossibility and Necessity of Theodicy. Studies in German Idealism, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5031-9_10

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