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The problem of individuality and freedom within a larger framework of order and stability was a basic issue in the seventeenth century.275 Although Leibniz tried to carve out an area of freedom for the individual in his philosophy, most of his contemporaries as well as his critics (right up to the present) agree that he failed.276
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Coudert, A.P. (1995). The Kabbalah and Freedom and Determinism. In: Leibniz and the Kabbalah. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 142. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2069-4_6
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