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Monads, Composition, and Force - Ariadnean Threads through Leibniz's Labyrinth (Hardcover)
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Monads, Composition, and Force - Ariadnean Threads through Leibniz's Labyrinth (Hardcover)
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Leibniz's monads have long been a source of fascination and
puzzlement. If monads are merely immaterial, how can they alone
constitute reality? In Monads, Composition and Force, Richard T. W.
Arthur takes seriously Leibniz's claim of introducing monads to
solve the problem of the composition of matter and motion. Going
against a trend of idealistic interpretations of Leibniz's thought,
Arthur argues that although monads are presupposed as the
principles making actual each of the infinite parts of matter,
bodies are not composed of them. He offers a fresh interpretation
of Leibniz's theory of substance in which monads are enduring
primitive forces, corporeal substances are embodied monads, and
bodies are aggregates of monads, not mere appearances. In this
reading the monads are constitutive unities, constituting an
organic unity of function through time, and bodies are phenomenal
in two senses; as ever-changing things they are Platonic phenomena
and as pluralities, in being perceived together, they are also
Democritean phenomena. Arthur argues for this reading by describing
how Leibniz's thought is grounded in seventeenth century atomism
and the metaphysics of the plurality of forms, showing how his
attempt to make this foundation compatible with mechanism
undergirds his insightful contributions to biological science and
the dynamical foundations he provides for modern physics.
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