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Leibniz's Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Leibniz's Ethics First published Thu Aug 26, 2004; substantive revision Tue Oct 12, 2004
It is often remarked that Leibniz never wrote a systematic ethical
treatise. However, in his view theology is a sort of jurisprudence, a
type of science of law (NE, p. 526). And Leibniz contributed a
systematic work to the field of theology, namely, the Theodicy
(1710), the only large-scale philosophical work that he published
during his lifetime. Given that Leibniz the natural theologian and
metaphysician is, at the same time, a moral theorist, ethics has a
central place in his philosophical system. No divisions exist among the
nominally different fields. Thus the complaint that he never wrote a
systematic ethical treatise by and large misses the point. Moreover,
the fact that he views theology as a science of law provides some
insight into the character and structure of his ethics. He offers a
natural law theory, and, like other such theories, its basic structure
consists of a theory of the good and a theory of law. Compliance with
the principles spelled out in the latter is necessary and sufficient to
achieve the good. Since, according to Leibniz, God is the measure of
the good, the primary directive of his ethics is that one ought to
imitate divinity as far as possib"
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