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Aristoteles und Demokrit in der Gelehrtenrepublik

Zur Antikenrezeption in Leibniz’ Briefverkehr der 1660er und 1670er Jahre

Aristotle and Democritus in the Republic of Scholars

On the Reception of Antiquity in Leibniz’s Correspondence of the 1660s and 1670s
In: Daphnis
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Dennis Borghardt Universität Duisburg-Essen Essen Deutschland

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Carolin Rocks Universität Hamburg Hamburg Deutschland

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Abstract

This article examines Leibniz’s correspondence of the 1660s and 1670s, focusing on the reception of antiquity. The selected letters discuss contemporary natural philosophy. The article argues that Leibniz does not simply refer affirmatively to the ancient philosophers he values (especially Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus), but positions them in the erudite communication of correspondence. In this way, the correspondence projects a synchronicity of ancient and modern natural philosophy, and even depicts a transhistorical res publica lit[t]eraria, in which Aristotle and Democritus are well present.

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