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Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, 75
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This volume brings together a number of original articles by
leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of
Leibniz's notions of compossibility and possible worlds. In order
to avoid the conclusion that everything that exists is necessary,
or that all possibles are actual, as Spinoza held, Leibniz argued
that not all possible substances are compossible, that is, capable
of coexisting. In Leibniz's view, the compossibility relation
divides all possible substances into disjoint sets, each of which
constitutes a possible world, or a way that God might have created
things. For Leibniz, then, it is the compossibility relation that
individuates possible worlds; and possible worlds form the objects
of God's choice, from among which he chooses the best for creation.
Thus the notions of compossibility and possible worlds are of major
significance for Leibniz's metaphysics, his theodicy, and,
ultimately, for his ethics. Given the fact, however, that none of
the approaches to understanding Leibniz's notions of compossibility
and possible words suggested to date have gained universal
acceptance, the goal of this book is to gather a body of new papers
that explore ways of either refining previous interpretations in
light of the objections that have been raised against them, or ways
of framing new interpretations that will contribute to a fresh
understanding of these key notions in Leibniz's thought.
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