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...book “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Steven Nadler evokes a time when the greatest religious conflicts were located within the Christian Church itself, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Nadler relays the intellectual debate that took place between three 17th-century theologians: Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz, Antoine Arnauld, and Nicolas Malebranche. Despite the dry, theological substance of their dialogue, Nadler’s lively narrative creates an engaging portrait of the 17th century that brings to life their philosophical conversation. Even though Nadler does not truly make an argument for any of the ways to view...
Welcome to Advising Fortnight Café! We aim to provide you with the highest quality meals and customer service possible in order to bribe you to concentrate in our department! Enjoy your meal, and please stay for the panel discussion afterwards. Please! Please? BREAKFAST Tea and Liebniz Cookies with Philosophy: Served with a side of metaphysics and sprinkled with a light hint of useless-later-in-life. History and Science Donuts and Coffee: History and Science go together like donuts and coffee! Peanut butter and jelly! Pilbeam and vodka! Tea Stop with Lady Godiva in the English Department: Lady Godiva...
...System of the World in October 2004. But you'll wish it were longer. Its scope is galactically vast and encompasses the lives of noblemen, vagabonds and, above all, thinkers. Amid the still smoking aftermath of the Fire of London, the likes of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling. In The Baroque Cycle, he proves on an epic scale that the key to knowing what...
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