Leibniz and the Natural World - Livres de poche

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789048168552
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9048168554
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Livre de poche
Date de parution: 2010
Editeur: Springer
316 Pages
Poids: 0,506 kg
Langue: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9048168554

ISBN - Autres types d'écriture:
90-481-6855-4, 978-90-481-6855-2
Autres types d'écriture et termes associés:
Auteur du livre: pauline phemister
Titre du livre: the natural philosophy leibniz, leibniz and the natural world, leibniz synthese

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Données de l'éditeur

Auteur: Pauline Phemister
Titre: The New Synthese Historical Library; Leibniz and the Natural World - Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy
Editeur: Springer; Springer Netherland
298 Pages
Date de parution: 2010-10-28
Dordrecht; NL
Imprimé / Fabriqué en
Langue: Anglais
160,49 € (DE)
164,99 € (AT)
177,00 CHF (CH)
POD
XVI, 298 p.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Philosophie; Philosophie; Verstehen; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; René Descartes; continuity; epistemology; ethics; freedom; interpret; metaphysics; philosophy; Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Nature; Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen; Umweltschützer: Denkansätze und Ideologien; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie; BB

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.
Doctrine of corporeal substance advanced in context of Leibniz's wider philosophy Promotes non-idealist interpretation of Leibniz Takes in account the notion of passivity in Leibniz's philosophy, commonly neglected