Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain
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Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain is a major philosophical work by Leibniz in which he systematically responds to John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and develops his own theory of knowledge, innate ideas, and the nature of the mind.
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| New Essays on Human Understanding | 2 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ |
| comparesWith | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1704 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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empiricism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Philalèthe
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Théophile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1765 ⓘ |
| genre | early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book I
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Book II ⓘ Book III ⓘ Book IV ⓘ |
| influenced |
18th-century philosophy
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later rationalist epistemology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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John Locke ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressSubject |
Of Knowledge and Probability
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Knowledge, Theory of
Mind and body ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
epistemology
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innate ideas ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ theory of knowledge ⓘ |
| modeledOn | four-book structure of Locke’s Essay ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
distinction between necessary and contingent truths
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doctrine of innate dispositions ⓘ small perceptions (petites perceptions) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| philosophicalEra | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | rationalism ⓘ |
| philosophicalTopic |
freedom and necessity
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innateness of ideas ⓘ language ⓘ nature of ideas ⓘ nature of the mind ⓘ perception ⓘ personal identity ⓘ substance ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publisher | Rudolph Raspe ⓘ |
| structure | dialogue ⓘ |
| supports | rationalism ⓘ |
| title | Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain self-link ⓘ |
| writtenInResponseTo | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ |
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