The Controversies Of Leibniz's Correspondence

I claim that neither Newton nor Leibniz was successful at the Clarke- Leibniz Correspondance because neither had a significant amount of supporting theses to support their main claim, and even though Leibniz may have won over certain Newtonians, it was under false pretenses, therefore, neither scientist had actually proved their correctness in the case. Throughout this paper, the given controversy includes the theories of three men; Leibniz, Newton, and partially Clarke (following the same point of view as Newton). I shall start the paper by giving a brief biography of each scientist, their lives leading up to the written debate between both sides, known as the “Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence”. The eldest of the three scientists was Sir Isaac Newton, born on the 25th of December in the year 1642. As a boy, Newton was raised by his grandmother, for

Born in the town of Leipzig, Saxony, where his father was a professor of philosophy and died in 1652, Leibniz was raised mostly by his mother, from whom he learned the religious aspects that do with his later life philosophies. From age seven to thirteen Leibniz studied at the Nicolai School, where in his free time he learned excessive latin and greek in order to read the scientific and philosophical works of various writers. At the age of fourteen, Leibniz attended University of Leipzig, where he studied, philosophy, mathematics, rhetoric, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In 1663 Leibniz received his bachelors degree with his thesis paper, “De Principio Individui”, in which the graduate “... emphasised the existential value of the individual, who is not to be explained either by matter alone or by form alone but rather by his whole being” (University of St. Andrews). This point of view would eventually lead to the debate between Newton and himself about absolutism versus