文艺复兴人文主义,经院哲学和近代机械论哲学构成十七世纪的欧洲的三股主流思想。伴随民族国家兴起,地方语言也逐渐流行,三十年战争和德意志启蒙运动的特点构成了莱布尼茨的方法论形成的社会背景。基督教卡巴拉主义,斯多葛主义、新柏拉图主义和德国的黑伯恩百科全书派对于莱布尼茨的百科全书式调和折中主义的方法论产生了重要的影响。 Renaissance humanism, Scholasticism and modern philosophy of mechanics constitute the three mainstream ideas of Europe in the seventeenth century. With the rise of nation-states, local languages ​​became more and more popular. The characteristics of the three decades war and the German Enlightenment formed the social background of Leibniz’s methodology. Christian Kabbalahism, Stoicism, neo-Platonism, and the German Black Encyclopedia party have had a significant impact on Leibniz’s encyclopedic eclectic eclecticism.