Abstract

In general, in order to gain a more comprehensive view of something it is quite profitable to approach a philosophical concept through its correlation, differentiation, and even opposition to another related concept. 'Place' and 'space,' philosophical terms, constitute an ideal case in which to apply this method.These concepts are so closely related that they may be interdependent, because both of them mean an environment that encompasses, surrounds, or contains objects, things, bodies, entities, events, occurrences, and processes. Thus, G. W. Leibniz, who searched for the rational foundation of Christianity as well as of mathematics and physics, wrote in the second passage of his Monadology: "a...