Leibniz and Newton on Space, Time and the Trinity.
G. W. Leibniz was a philosopher caught up in both the scientific and theological disputes of his day. Here I argue that a set of common concerns underlay his engagement within two seemingly very different disputes: that with Newton over the nature of space and time, and that with Socinians over the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Vol. 7; no. 16; pp. 26 - 42 |
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