Wilson Catherine Leibniz`s Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study 9780691653846

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Автор: Wilson Catherine
Название: Leibniz`s Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780691653846
Издательство: Wiley
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История западной философии

Философия: метафизика и онтология

ISBN-10: 0691653844
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 362
Вес: 0.68 кг.
Дата издания: 19.04.2016
Серия: Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy
Язык: English
Размер: 23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: A historical and comparative study
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This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibnizs thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibnizs early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in his theory of substance and his subsequent de-emphasis of logical determinism, and finally to his doctrines of harmony and optimization. Specific attention is given to Leibnizs understanding of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke.

Wilson analyzes Leibnizs complex response to the new mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the foundations on which it rested, and his return to the past to locate the resources for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the key to an understanding not only of Leibnizs monadology but also of his views on the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of external causal influence. A final chapter considers the problem of Leibniz-reception in the post-Kantian era, and the difficulty of coming to terms with a metaphysics that is not only philosophically critical but, at the same time, compensatory.

Originally published in 1990.

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Leibniz`s Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Wilson Catherine