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The Count writes about the career of way awesome 18th century philosopher Hermann Reimarus over at The Humanist! Check it out!
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Leibniz was rather famous for having one of the oddest walking gaits on the European intellectual scene, his limbs flapping about all higgeldy piggeldy as he moved. It most likely wasn’t an issue of footwear, but when you add Paris, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leibniz had a strange relationship with Spinoza. Because of Spinoza’s almost universally reviled status as an arch-atheist of the worst colors, Leibniz had to publicly take every opportunity to discredit him, but secretly he was fascinated by the Dutch philosopher. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Leibniz had a tricky philosophical mission – he was caught between Descartes and Spinoza, unhappy with the species-ism of the former, and unable to publicly advocate what he liked about the latter. The best he could manage was Monadology, a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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