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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2016, 10:28:59 PM

Title: Liebniz and the nation state
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2016, 10:28:59 PM

As so many times, I feel Liebniz is rushing to put an ought into an is...




https://aeon.co/ideas/what-would-leibniz-say-about-the-schisms-in-europe-today

Title: Re: Liebniz and the nation state
Post by: Udayana on December 03, 2016, 05:07:06 PM

NS - you've pasted the wrong link above.

Title: Re: Liebniz and the nation state
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2016, 05:14:06 PM

Quote from: Udayana on December 03, 2016, 05:07:06 PM

NS - you've pasted the wrong link above.

ah yes, now corrected

Title: Re: Liebniz and the nation state
Post by: Udayana on December 03, 2016, 06:54:12 PM

Leibniz was a very clever man.

No matter how sophisticated your philosophy, as a human you usually have to decide what "ought" to be and work towards bringing it about. At the end of over 30 years of one the bloodiest European wars and as an optimist and diplomat he must have felt obliged to try and put in place a framework in which different nations and religious sects could coexist peacefully.