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Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, 67
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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.
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