This man's correspondence with foreigner Lady Masham helped spark his major philosophical feud.
This man's correspondence with foreigner Lady Masham helped spark his major philosophical feud. He rejected deduction in favor of innate knowledge and compared the mind to a block of marble in a book containing a line by line refutation of a work by the author of the Reasonableness of Christianity. This author of New Essays on Human Understanding asserted that God is always (*) omnipotent in a work addressing the problem of evil, Theodicée, and submitted that everything consists of a single type of fundamental particle in another work. Arguing that we live in the best of all possible worlds, for 10 points, name this German philosopher who theorized the existence of monads and independently developed calculus apart from Newton.
This man's correspondence with foreigner Lady Masham helped spark his major philosophical feud.
Gottfried Wilhelm {Leibniz}