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Leibniz and the Natural World - Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Leibniz and the Natural World - Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, 58
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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.
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