Publisher's Synopsis
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Writings is a short treatise in whichLeibniz develops philosophy concerning physical substance, motion and resistance of bodies, and God's role within the universe. .
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was an influential German polymath and one of the most important natural philosophers and mathematicians of the Age of Enlightenment.