Leibniz’s notes disclose the philosopher in his most sympathetic reading of the Ethica, while the two latest works indicate a thinker more concerned to develop alternative concepts and explanations as a means of avoiding what he conceives as the major pitfalls of the spinozistic world view. While the appearance of these later works in an English translation is no less to be desired, the present translation documents a seminal juncture in the development of Leibniz’s own thought, and a careful, if not always sympathetic, reading of Spinoza’s Ethica.
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