Abstract

This contribution tries to analyse in a systematic and hermeneutic approach the ideas that Leibniz developed regarding the concept of ‘history’ (historia, histoire). ‘History’ is understood here not only in the narrow sense of the discipline established since the Humanist debates and conceived as a “narratio rerum gestarum”, but also in the much broader sense of a certain “conditio humana”, as a denomination also with regard to nature (historia naturalis) or, also, as an expression for the temporality of all being.