CONTENTS, VALUES AND RESTRICTIONS IN THE RATIONALISM PHILOSOPHY OF GOTTFRIED VILHELM LEIBNIZ

Abstract

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a mathematician and a prominent German philosopher, famous representative of rationalism in modern Western European philosophy of the seventeenth century. He has great contributions to the development of philosophy and science in the West. His philosophical thinking had a strong influence on philosophers, in which the most prominent was classical German philosophers. In this paper, the author focuses on the basic contents of Leibniz's rationalist thought based on the philosophical ideas of Descartes and Spinoza. In this way, it first evaluates the great contributions of the German philosopher as well as certain restrictions of that thought on modern Western philosophy and philosophy later.