Gottfried Leibniz

Introduction! Hello, today I will be talking about John Wallis, which John Wallis is known for the partial credit in the Infinitesimal Calculus. What impact did John Wallis have? In 1655 John Wallis discovered the Infinite Product π4 = 23x43x45x65x67xxx, and his colleague William Brouncker transformed this into the Infinite Continued. Which today is what we know as Calculus. Which if you don’t know what Calculus is, it is the branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and derivatives…

Molinism and open theism Molinism is the theory regrading God’s knowledge. The details are as follows. Molinisim says that God have middle knowledge, which are the counterfactual conditionals of human beings. These counterfactual conditionals are not within God’s control. Feasible worlds are a subset of possible worlds. Feasible worlds are the worlds that God can actualise and must be consistent with the conditionals. Open theism doesn’t agree that God knows future contingent truths. God does…

says, “I still hold my original opinions… because, after all, I’m a philosopher and it wouldn’t be proper for me to recant, since Leibniz cannot be wrong, and since pre-established harmony is the most beautiful thing in the world, along with the plenum and the subtle matter” (Voltaire, pg. 114). In this quote, Voltaire mentions Leibniz, a philosopher around his time. Leibniz believed God is all powerful and morally perfect. Voltaire used Dr. Pangloss’s constant optimism to poke fun at Leibniz’s…

Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, initially performed in 1943 in Switzerland, spins around the character of Shen Teh/Shui Ta, playing on the possibility of goodness. Shen The is great, or possibly that is the thing that one should consider her to be, and Shui Ta is awful. In any case, the doubles wind up noticeably complex when the play contextualizes them with authentic realism, private enterprise, religion, charitableness, and the different meanings of contemporary ethical quality. The…

than in his magnum opus, Candide or Optimism. Biting, intelligent and often time’s quite humorous Voltaire’s satire felt nothing was sacred in 18th century Europe. At the novels core however, Voltaire challenged the optimism of Alexander Pope and Gottfried Leibnitz. Since its publication many have wondered what exactly Voltaire purposed to be the solution,…

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in the city of Leipzig. Leipzig lies in the west of The Free State of Saxony, in what was once The Holy Roman Empire, and is now referred to as Germany. Being located at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, Leipzig has always been an important trade city and center for culture and philosophical learning. This being said, most education was restricted to Latin literature, as it was for Gottfried. However, when he was six,…

interested in astronomy and went to go work and study with Christopher Arnold, an excellent Astronomer (biography: Married Gottfried Kirch). Arnold was a self-taught astronomer, and observed a comet in the year of 1683. Through Arnold, Maria met Gottfried Kirch who was one of the most important astronomers in Germany. He was most known for his calendars that he made…

1. What were Mozart’s fetishes? What about his wigs? a. One of the main fetishes of Mozart was poop. He would talk about it with anyone around him and sometimes he would mention it in the letters he wrote to his family. Which in a way made him sound crazy around all the composers and royalty since they were very formal and educated people. b. Mozart never wore a wig. He mostly wore a wig for official occasions. The movie Amadeus over exaggerates with the party-joke wigs. There are even rumors…

brought great ideas into the world was Gottfried Leibniz. He contributed a lot to mathematics, science, physics, philosophy and even his local government. Mathematicians are very important because without them we would not have many important theories that explain why certain things happen in the world. Mathematicians are important for science, physics, and philosophy. The theories that mathematicians create are very important to the academic world. Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany in…

While he was at Nurnberg, Leibniz came into contact with one of the most well-known German statesmen of that time. His name was Johann Christian, Freiherr von Boyneburg. Boyneburg gave Leibniz a job as an assistant. Leibniz wanted to gather together all human knowledge and so he published plenty of books containing valuable information. He wanted to go to Paris so he could meet more scientist to help him learn. Boyneburg allowed him to go to Paris in 1672. Boyneburg also died in that same year,…