by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420605999
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In 'New Essays on Human Understanding', Leibniz delves into the philosophy of knowledge, contrasting his rationalist view with Locke's empiricist ideas. Through critical dialogue, Leibniz explores topics such as perception, consciousness, and the nature of the soul, offering a unique perspective on European philosophy. This posthumously published work is one of the most profound and unclassifiable of European philosophical thought.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics. Leibniz has been called the "last universal genius" due to his vast expertise across fields, which became a rarity after his lifetime with the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the spread of specialized labour. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history, philology, games, music, economics and other studies. Leibniz also made major contributions to physics and technology, and anticipated notions that surfaced much later in probability theory, biology, medicine, geology, psychology, linguistics and computer science.
