The article presents the influence of the Flemish philosopher Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (1614-1699) on G.W. Leibniz’s monadological system. It shows the convergence of some of van Helmont’s views expressed in A Cabbalistical Dialogue and Paradoxal Discourses (like, for example, a concept of the monad), and presents also the differences between van Helmont’s monadological system and the later Leibnizian one.
The article describes the critiques of Kant’s concept of time published by two eighteenth-century German philosophers: Benedict Stattler and Adam Weishaupt. In the two-volume work Anti-Kant, Stattler opposes the a priori nature of time, believing that the concept of time comes from experience. Weishaupt, on the other hand, in his Doubts about Kant's Concepts of Time and Space argues that time is not a form of intuition, but exists objectively – outside the subject.
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