The son of a professor of moral philosophy, he taught himself Latin and Greek by age 12 so he could 
The son of a professor of moral philosophy, he taught himself Latin and Greek by age 12 so he could read his father's books. After receiving a doctorate in law from the University of Altdorf, he continued his career in the courts of Mainz. In his philosophical studies, he distinguished three cognitive faculties: sense, imagination, and reason as well as three modes of evil: physical, moral, and metaphysical. FTP, name this author of Monadology, who could have used his law training in settling his disputes with Newton over the calculus.
The son of a professor of moral philosophy, he taught himself Latin and Greek by age 12 so he could read his father's books.
Gottfried Wilhelm von {LEIBNI(T)Z}