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Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 74
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In the Preliminary Dissertation' of his Theodicy, Leibniz declares
himself an apologist for the compatibilist doctrines of original
sin, election and reprobation propounded by the theologians of the
Augsburg Confession. According to those theologians, man's actions
are determined but man retains the power to act otherwise and
therefore is responsible for his actions. Savage argues that
Leibniz, in formulating his apology, availed himself of both his
doctrine of possible worlds and his finite-infinite analysis
distinction (the latter being applied within the former). Savage
challenges the dogma that Leibniz's metaphysical principles entail
that individuals are powerless to act otherwise and that God cannot
conceive of them acting otherwise. He argues that interpreters
deduce the dogma from those principles with the aid of dubious
extra-textual premises, for example, that a Leibnizian individual
has only one complete concept or cannot be persons other than the
person it actually is.
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