The Leibnizian "Unforgreiffliche Gedancken" as a political treatise

• Authors: Halina Święczkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to present arguments to support the thesis that the text by G. W. Leibniz concerning the repair and improvement of the German language can be includedin his works as a political thinker in the part where philosopher undertakes the absolutely fundamental issue of establishing the basis of modern German national community. The project of constructions of e new enlightened German society based on a firm linguistic foundation laid out in Unforgreiffliche Gedanken is a mature thought underestimated political plan of the philosopher. Leibniz as a political thinker never became known in cultural and social circles as initiator of specific modernization actions. Including the text of treatise into the linguistic works of the philosopher was the reason of the limitation of its reception to a small audience. Leibniz – political thinker shared the fate of Leibniz – logician, whose contribution to the development of logic and mathematics was unraveled only by the 20th century. Incomprehension of his contemporaries and the oblivion of his posterity caused that even if Leibniz could became the father of the modern German nation, he has remained in its consciousness mainly as an esoteric philosopher.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 20(33)
• Pages: 113-125

Contributors

author

Halina Święczkowska

• University of Bialystok