Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development Book

	Acknowledgments
	References to Leibniz's works
	Introduction: first truths and half truths	1
Pt. 1	Metaphysics of Method
1	Eclecticism and conciliation, 1661-68	23
1	A walk in the woods	24
2	Method and metaphysics in the seventeenth century	27
3	The woods revisited	39
4	Leibniz's two-part method	49
Pt. 2	Metaphysics of Substance
2	Aristotelian assumptions, 1668-69	63
1	Metaphysical and religious harmony	64
2	The theological writings and Leibniz's Metaphysics of Substance	68
3	Leibniz's Aristotelian assumptions	94
3	Original conception of substance, 1669	99
1	Reformed philosophy	100
2	Letter to Thomasius	109
3	Conciliation and the Metaphysics of Substance	124
4	Second conception of substance, 1669-early 1671	130
1	Substantial difficulties	133
2	Letter to Thomasius revised	137
3	Development of a perfect union	144
4	Development of a conception of mind and activity	157
5	Second conception of substance	166
Pt. 3	Metaphysics of Divinity
5	Platonist Assumptions	173
1	Leibniz and Platonism	174
2	The Supreme Being: its unity, self-sufficiency, perfection	178
3	Plenitude	180
4	The Supreme Being as transcendent and immanent, as unity and multiplicity	184
5	Reflective harmony and sympathy	192
6	Ideas and knowledge	196
7	Matter and the hierarchy of being	198
8	Platonism in Leipzig	200
6	Metaphysics of Divinity, 1668-early 1671	206
1	Universal harmony	208
2	Mind	221
3	Creation stories, 1668-early 1671	225
4	Platonist epistemology	243
5	Leibniz's original Platonism	250
Pt. 4	Metaphysics
7	Matter, passivity, and panorganic vitalism, 1670-71	255
1	Material difficulties	257
2	Material progress	261
3	From passivity to vitality	270
4	Other evidence	282
8	Phenomenalism and Preestablished Harmony, 1671	300
1	Gap between the apparent and the real	302
2	Thinking about Preestablished Harmony	309
3	Metaphysical cohesion and Preestablished and Harmony	329
4	Preestablished Harmony and the Principle of Sufficient Reason	340
9	Preestablished Harmony, late 1671-early 1672	345
1	Studies on the universal characteristic	345
2	Metaphysics of Studies on the universal characteristic	360
3	Method and metaphysics, 1670-1672	381
10	Final steps toward the mature philosophy, 1672-79	385
1	Early Paris years, 1672-73	388
2	Substance and plenitude, 1676	408
3	Substance and divinity, 1676	427
4	Completeness and truth, 1676-79	441
5	Matters of interpretation	451
	Conclusion: the truth behind the First truths	462
App. I	(Not exactly) First truths	473
App. II	Leibniz's original assumptions	477
	Bibliography	485
	Index Locorum	503
	Index	509