Leibniz On Substance And Matter
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Descartes Spinoza Leibniz
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Author : Roger Woolhouse
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Descartes Spinoza Leibniz written by Roger Woolhouse and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional metaphysics. in philosophy.
Leibniz And The Natural World
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Author : Pauline Phemister
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-03-30
Leibniz And The Natural World written by Pauline Phemister and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-30 with Philosophy categories.
In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions of them illusory. Re-reading the texts without the prior assumption of idealism allows the more material aspects of Leibniz's metaphysics to emerge. Leibniz is found to advance a synthesis of idealism and materialism. His ontology posits indivisible, living, animal-like corporeal substances as the real metaphysical constituents of the universe; his epistemology combines sense-experience and reason; and his ethics fuses confused perceptions and insensible appetites with distinct perceptions and rational choice. In the light of his sustained commitment to the reality of bodies, Phemister re-examines his dynamics, the doctrine of pre-established harmony and his views on freedom. The image of Leibniz as a rationalist philosopher who values activity and reason over passivity and sense-experience is replaced by the one of a philosopher who recognises that, in the created world, there can only be activity if there is also passivity; minds, souls and forms if there is also matter; good if there is evil; perfection if there is imperfection.
Leibniz S Metaphysics And Adoption Of Substantial Forms
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Author : Adrian Nita
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-07-01
Leibniz S Metaphysics And Adoption Of Substantial Forms written by Adrian Nita and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79. This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to the metaphysics from his last years. Between the end of his sejour at Paris (November 1676) and the first part of the Hanover period, Leibniz reformed his dynamics and began to use the theory of corporeal substance. This book explores a very important part of the philosophical work of the young Leibniz. Expertise from around the globe is collated here, including Daniel Garber’s work based on the recent publication of Leibniz's correspondence from the late 1690s, examining how the theory of monads developed during these crucial years. Richard Arthur argues that the introduction of substantial forms, reinterpreted as enduring primitive forces of action in each corporeal substance, allows Leibniz to found the reality of the phenomena of motion in force and thus avoid reducing motion to a mere appearance. Amongst other themes covered in this book, Pauline Phemister’s paper investigates Leibniz’s views on animals and plants, highlighting changes, modifications and elaborations over time of Leibniz’s views and supporting arguments and paying particular attention to his claim that the future is already contained in the seeds of living things. The editor, Adrian Nita, contributes a paper on the continuity or discontinuity of Leibniz’s work on the question of the unity and identity of substance from the perspective of the relation with soul (anima) and mind (mens).
Locke And Leibniz On Substance
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Author : Paul Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Locke And Leibniz On Substance written by Paul Lodge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Philosophy categories.
Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.
Machines Of Nature And Corporeal Substances In Leibniz
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Author : Justin E. H. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Machines Of Nature And Corporeal Substances In Leibniz written by Justin E. H. Smith and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Philosophy categories.
In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the activity of mind, has come under attack, but Leibniz's precise conceptualization of bodies, and the role they play in his system as a whole, is still the subject of much controversy. One thing that has become clear is that in order to understand the nature of body in Leibniz, and the role body plays in his philosophy, it is crucial to pay attention to the related concepts of organism and of corporeal substance, the former being Leibniz's account of the structure of living bodies (which turn out, for him, to be the only sort of bodies there are), and the latter being an inheritance from the Aristotelian hylomorphic tradition which Leibniz appropriates for his own ends. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body.
Leibniz
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Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Leibniz written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Metaphysics categories.
Substance And Individuation In Leibniz
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Author : J. A. Cover
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-09-09
Substance And Individuation In Leibniz written by J. A. Cover and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne examine the question of how the scholastic themes which were Leibniz's inheritance figure - and are refigured - in his mature account of substance and individuation. From this emerges a sometimes surprising assessment of Leibniz's views on modality, the Identity of Indiscernibles, form as an internal law, and the complete-concept doctrine. As a rigorous philosophical treatment of a still-influential mediary between scholastic and modern metaphysics, this study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and contemporary metaphysicians alike.
Leibniz S Final System
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Author : Glenn A. Hartz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-10-19
Leibniz S Final System written by Glenn A. Hartz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-19 with Philosophy categories.
As the first major work on realism in Leibniz's metaphysics, this key text demonstrates that it is not possible to maintain compatibility of phenomenalist and realist views – they must be understood as completely separate trends of thought in Leibniz.
Leibniz Body Substance Monad
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Author : Daniel Garber
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-07-09
Leibniz Body Substance Monad written by Daniel Garber and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-09 with Philosophy categories.
Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book's focus is on Leibniz's middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz's career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.
Leibniz
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Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Leibniz written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with First philosophy categories.