In this article, I studied Leibniz from the point of view of "Historicism". An attempt to consider Leibniz in relation to "Historicism" is seen in Meinecke's, where "Historicism" is regarded as a sort of dynamic "Denk- weise". I insisted, in contrast to Cartesian school, the dynamic "Denkweise" in Leibniz's thought as Meinecke had once done. According to my interpretation, Leibniz's thought is of a dynamic "Denkweise" in its basic character, while that of Descartes belongs primarily to a static "Denkweise". Nevertheless Leibniz's thought cannot be fully understood merely from this dynamic point of view, for a kind of static "Denkweise", too, is prevailing in his thought. The problem, therefore, lies in how those two contradictory elements (dynamic and static "Denkweise") come to be united in Leibniz. I tried, here, to find this synthesis in his conception of "the Monad as the Metaphisical point" as well as in that of the "Infinity".
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