Leibniz’s Justification of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Mainly) in the Correspondence with Clarke

History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 21 (1):69-91 (2018)
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The aim of this paper is to shed light on Leibniz’s justification of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. It approaches this issue through a close textual analysis of the correspondence with Samuel Clarke and a more abstruse and lesser-known writing, ‘Leibniz’s Philosophical Dream’.

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