Leibniz. Of Panlogicismus and the Metaphysics of Calculus or How to Imagine a Harmonia Praestabilita

Abstract

Leibniz’s philosophy is considered by historians of philosophy in different and even opposite ways. In fact, there are those who consider Leibniz as “the great universal spirit of modernity” (Otto Saame) or as the past philosopher “of whom the greatest number of theses are in force today” (José Ortega y Gasset), but also those who consider that its importance is not “so enormous that the history of the human spirit cannot be conceived without it” (H. Glockner). Without falling into these descriptions, what I carry out in the article is an essay on understanding Leibniz’s philosophy according to which this would be a panlogicism in which, through a metaphysics of calculus, a Harmonia praestabilita is imagined.