Word: leibnitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those pioneers and leaders of the "Age of Enlightenment,"-Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Leibnitz, Locke-put too much emphasis on reason, said Dr. Beck. The intellect, he added stoutly, is not enough. "We know from the history of our own times that the intellect has been a disappointment. It has not given men the central direction for which they searched...
...Poet. Whitehead's metaphysical speculations culminated in Process and Reality (1929). Philosopher John Dewey once wrote that he was not sure he understood the book, but that it was undoubtedly the most significant work in systematic philosophy since Leibnitz. Whitehead had no use for philosophic systems that split reality between mind & matter, or between physical objects and man's ideas of them. (When someone asked him "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Whitehead replied: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things.") For Whitehead, all reality was a pattern of becomings and perishings...
...Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...