Research On The Thought Of Leibniz’s Universal Character

As the language is the most important tool for human to express scientific knowledge and their thought. Human beings use language to deliver and keep the knowledge, which has the great importance on the development of every filed. Therefore, to do the research on the relationship among knowledge, language and thought of human is particularly necessary. The development of knowledge has been divided several periods, with the knowledge become more concretely, it also has the unity meanwhile. A problem comes out that shall we to unify the knowledge by the union of language? The first attempt in the history was Leibniz; he proposed a project called Universal Character.No matter from the social level or cultural level in 17th century, it shows that the unity was the historical trend of the development with time flying. At the same time, the discussion of language and knowledge had never been stopped. Leibniz believed the unity of knowledge and language, and tried to achieve the unity of knowledge through the unity of language. Therefore he boldly put forward the idea of "universal character". He was eager to express human knowledge and concepts by characters, and use a composed of symbols clearly and accurately to build the formal language which established by the mathematical method. In this way people can use "universal character" knowledge system to find truth, and use mathematical reasoning calculus to obtain scientific knowledge.Although Leibniz’s conception of "universal character" was a perfect and rational language, although he presented the rules of general calculus, however, this ambitious desire ultimately had not realized. Indeed there was limitation of the historical factors and his own conditions related, but the worthy thing is to consider whether it is reasonable and to think the scientific premise of "universal character"."Universal character" had not reached the expected purpose, but this did not prevent the establishment of rational language, his idea of "universal character" had given many philosophers of the enlightenment, many philosophers after him have absorbed and developed the Leibniz’s theory of language concept, and took this road far and far. To some degree, Leibniz "universal character" conception on the later philosophy development produced profound long-term influence.