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Stony Brook University The official
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Copyright by Christopher Lowell Joh
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Abstract of the Dissertation The Sc
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The more power he has, the less lic
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Section 1: Introduction............
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show, however, that pleasure and lo
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CHAPTER ONE: SUBJECTIVE RIGHT AND T
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By a plan for studies we mean a cer
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that for Leibniz the science of jur
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of these sources. In (1) the ground
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etween “fact” on one hand and
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however ‘public utility’ is def
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Grotius’ two significations of
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obligatio. That is, conceptually sp
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one’s own body; furthermore, give
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words, the sense in which God is su
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ight of war and punishment to the S
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qualities are the ground of public
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what conforms to the best or perfec
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Beginning with jus strictum or what
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proportion to contribution, this is
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of equity. 117 Nevertheless, it app
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agrees with the distinction between
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eward or fear of punishment, nor si
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eflecting God’s perfection as muc
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second degrees. As a precept of pie
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of a set of prudential instructions
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In Drafts 5 and 6 Leibniz then appl
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egulated. As we will eventually see
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advantage connected with the disadv
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To see how this passage implies pru
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establishes three important positio
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Justice must (and will always) invo
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y making the “deduction” that t
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Leibniz also seems to think that th
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[determine] the truth of propositio
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Prudence, furthermore, cannot be se
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Once again, as was to be shown, dut
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own and other good. The first defin
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of the matter. The main considerati
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of any other good, even if pleasure
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failing to recognize that pleasure
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another. Leibniz’s “epagogic”
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of right. Since right is the moral
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critical diligence to his definitio
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constant, I say, not that it may no
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mode of right have different truth
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the four types of statements of the
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accommodates this principle in the
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Essais. These sources, as he says t
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Leibniz cites a number of instincts
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our passions and our present concer
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The ordinary use of the word ‘pro
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state, constitute [natural right];
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ecognizes how the senses can obscur
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proposition; rather, possessing a v
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CHAPTER SIX: MONITA AND MEDITATION:
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committing crimes with impunity. Ul
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In the science of [right], rather,
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i.e., that she is the author of her
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sufficient to establish the obligat
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This notion of “complaint” will
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It is agreed that whatever God will
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terminology, Leibniz holds that nat
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different matter, but if it [occurs
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need of help, and another who easil
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‘equality,’ considered as “co
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such a way that no one has a reason
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excused from showing benevolence to
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this. In any case, the real problem
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This means that the slave should be
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its efficient cause in the divine i
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a degree is it repugnant to reason
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external principle that compels God
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again at last to the Ciceronian for
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as equity; justice as love) were de
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CHAPTER SEVEN: NECESSITY, OBLIGATIO
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Thus in the Theodicy Leibniz uses m
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incapable of demonstrations. A scie
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Furthermore, we must not forget tha
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perceived to be the good. 24 Howeve
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Several points are notable here: Fi
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find the eternal rules of goodness
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Accordingly, the perfection of the
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an account of virtue. This shows, o
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H Hobbes, Thomas. 1651. Leviathan.
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Studia Leibniziana. Band 22. vol.2.
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Reiner, Hans. 1977. “Die Goldene