Nuevos ensayos sobre el entendimiento humano

A work that is undoubtedly one of the most profound and unclassifiable in European philosophical thought, "New Essays on Human Understanding" is perhaps the most representative of G. W. Leibniz's intellectual voracity. In it there are multiple references to the most varied fields of knowledge and to the most diverse authors without giving up an iota of depth in the way of thinking about each other. Leibniz's thought starts from a dialogue with the problems and authors of his time, trying to become the philosophy of the reunification of Christianity. Hence his attention to Spinoza and his frustrated attempts to dialogue with Locke, whose "Essay on Human Understanding" (1690) prompted the writing between the summer of 1703 and January of 1704 of the bulk of the work (which, however, was not published until 1765, posthumously, by prohibition of Duke Georg Ludwig of Hannover and later King of England, George I), in which Leibniz contrasts the various conceptions of his time about knowledge, ideas and languages, and presents his own in dialogue way.