| 书目名称 | Leibniz and the Natural World |
| 副标题 | Activity, Passivity |
| 编辑 | Pauline Phemister |
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| 概述 | 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, comm |
| 丛书名称 | The New Synthese Historical Library |
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| 描述 | 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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2005 |
| 关键词 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; René Descartes; continuity; epistemology; ethics; freedom; interpret; metaphysic |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3401-6 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6855-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-3401-5Series ISSN 1879-8578 Series E-ISSN 2352-2585 |
| issn_series | 1879-8578 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005 |
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