Leibniz : body, substance, monad / Daniel Garber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garber, Daniel, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Monadology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginningwith Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and

Contents:

First thoughts

Reforming mechanism : unity

Reforming mechanism : body and force, matter and form (I)

Reforming mechanism : body and force, matter and form (II)

Complete individual concepts, non-communication, and causal connection

Divine wisdom and final causes

Leibnizian phenomenalisms

Enchanting the world : "

after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking"

Monads, bodies, and corporeal substances : the endgame.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-411) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-969309-9

9786612348839

1-282-34883-3

0-19-157062-1

OCLC:

463184547