Leibniz and the Natural World: Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy (The New Synthese Historical Library) von
Art Nr.: 1402034008 |
ISBN 13: 9781402034008 |
B-Nr: INF1000171987 |
SubTitle: Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy |
Serie: 58 |
ReleaseYear: 2005 |
Published by: Springer Netherlands |
Edition: Gebundene Ausgabe |
Cover: Gebundene Ausgabe |
Cover Format: 241x160x22 mm |
Pages: 316 |
Weight: 641 g |
Language: Englisch |
Author: Pauline Phemister |
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Description |
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. |