Description: Part 1: Introductory MaterialHow to Use this BookAbbreviationsEditor's Introduction1. Introduction2. Substance and Matter3. Physics and Natural Science4. The Metaphysics of Causation5. The Union of Body and Mind6. Humans, Animals, and their Minds7. From God to the Best Possible World: Creation, Freedom, and the Community of Rational Minds8. Leibniz: Life and InfluenceThe Texts Printed in this EditionPart 2: The Texts1. Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)2. Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-1687)3. Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics (1694)4. New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication, and of the Union which Exists between the Body and the Soul (1695)5. Specimen Dynamicum: An Essay in Dynamics (1695)6. Reply of M. S.F. to M. de L.B.Z. on his System of the Communication between Substances (1695)7. Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections (1695)8. Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances (1696)9. Extract from a Letter Written by M. de Leibniz about his Philosophical Hypothesis (1696)10. Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1697)11. Leibniz's Comments on Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1705?)12. A Letter to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System (1698)13. Nature Itself (1698)14. Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1702)15. Leibniz's Comments on Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1705?)16. Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article 'Rorarius', concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony (1702; published 1716) published 1716) Harmony Contained in the Second Edition of the Critical Dictionary of M. Bayle (1702; published 1716)17. Draft Letters from Leibniz to Bayle (1702)18. Principles of Nature and Grace (1714)19. Monadology (1714)Part 3: Notes, Bibliography, and IndexNotesBibliography and Further ReadingIndex

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