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Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (Hardcover)
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Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (Hardcover)
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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.
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