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| 7825 | The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity |
| Full Idea: The politics of Leibniz may be summed up in one word: theocracy. The specific agenda motivating much of his work was to reunite the Protestant and Catholic churches | |||
| From: Matthew Stewart (The Courtier and the Heretic [2007], Ch. 5) | |||
| A reaction: This would be a typical project for a rationalist philosopher, who thinks that good reasoning will gradually converge on the one truth. |