ISBN:
9781402034015
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 58
DDC:
193
Schlagwort(e):
Philosophy of Nature
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
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Substanz
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Prästabilierte Harmonie
;
Philosophie
Kurzfassung:
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.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction; Substances: Public and Private; Primary Matter; Extension; The Composition of Bodies; The Composition of the Continuum; Perceptions and Perceivers; Phenomenal Bodies; Derivative Forces; Pre-Established Harmony; Freedom
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278) and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-3401-6
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