En la modernidad, filósofos y científicos comenzaron a crear nuevas formas de explicar la naturaleza y mediante ello rompieron lazos con la filosofía griega. Leibniz, sin embargo, no solamente reconocía su influencia griega, sino que además ésta fue esencial en el desarrollo de un sistema definitivo de verdades, el cual hemos denominado como maxima quaestio.
In the modern era, philosophers and scientists started to create new explanatory systems. By doing so, they were breaking ties with the past, especially with the Greek tradition. However, the case of Leibniz is different. First, he recognized the influence of the Greeks in his philosophy; and second, this influence was essential for the development of a definitive system of truths, which we have called the maxima quaestio.