Leibniz Body substance monad 1st Edition by Daniel Garber 019956664X 9780199566648

Leibniz Body substance monad 1st Edition by Daniel Garber – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 019956664X, 9780199566648

Full download Leibniz Body substance monad 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 019956664X

ISBN 13: 9780199566648

Author: Daniel Garber

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. Beginning with Leibniz’s earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book’s focus is on Leibniz’s middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz’s career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.

Leibniz Body substance monad 1st Table of contents:

1. First Thoughts

2. Reforming Mechanism: Unity

3. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (I)

4. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (II)

5. Complete Individual Concepts, Non-Communication, and Causal Connection

6. Divine Wisdom and Final Causes

7. Leibnizian Phenomenalisms

8. Enchanting the World: ‘‘After Many Corrections and Forward Steps in my Thinking . . .’’

9. Monads, Bodies, and Corporeal Substances: the Endgame

People also search for Leibniz Body substance monad 1st: 

leibniz substance

leibniz individual substance

leibniz body substance monad

leibniz mind body problem

Tags: Daniel Garber, Leibniz, Body, substance, monad