Is this world the best possible world? Some would agree that it is because God, as a perfect being, created it. However, some ...

Perhaps 50,000 perished. The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy.

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most prestigious research funding award in Germany. The recipients receive prize money totalling 2.5 million euros which can be freely used at their ...

[ii] Whilst undertaking his studies, Amo had been immersed in the progressive thinking of the Enlightenment, including that of his mentor Christian Thomasius as well as Christian Wolff and Gottfried ...