Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 1980
Walter H. O'Briant
Pages 215-220
Leibniz’s Contribution to Environmental Philosophy
In this essay I survey the philosophy of the seventeenth-century German thinker Gottfried Leibniz as a preliminary to eliciting some of the implications of his views for environmental philosophy. Reference is also made to the views of the ancient atomists, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza.