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Living Mirrors - Infinity, Unity, and Life in Leibniz's Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Living Mirrors - Infinity, Unity, and Life in Leibniz's Philosophy (Hardcover)
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In Living Mirrors, Ohad Nachtomy examines Leibniz's attempt to
"re-enchant" the natural world-that is, to infuse life, purpose,
and value into the very foundations of nature, a nature that
Leibniz saw as disenchanted by Descartes' and Spinoza's more
naturalistic and mechanistic theories. Nachtomy sees Leibniz's
nuanced view of infinity- how it differs in the divine as well as
human spheres, and its relationship to numerical and metaphysical
unity-as key in this effort. Leibniz defined living beings by means
of an infinite nested structure particular to what he called
"natural machines"-and for him, an intermediate kind of infinity is
the defining feature of living beings. Using a metaphor of a
"living mirror," Leibniz put forth infinity as crucial to
explaining the unity of a living being as well as the harmony
between the infinitely small and the infinitely large; in this way,
employing infinity and unity, we can better understand life itself,
both as a metaphysical principle and as an empirical fact.
Nachtomy's sophisticated and novel treatment of the essential
themes in Leibniz's work will not only interest Leibniz scholars,
but scholars of early modern philosophy and students of the history
of philosophy and science as well.
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