书名: Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (The New Synthese Historical Library)
作者: Ohad Nachtomy (Author)
出版社: Springer; 1 edition (May 22, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1402052448
ISBN-13: 978-1402052446
Book Description
This work presents Leibnizs subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibnizs approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibnizs notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates.
Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in Gods understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action. He uses this definition to clarify Leibnizs notions of individuation, relations and his distinction between individual substances and aggregates as well as the notion of organic individuals, which have a nested structure to infinity. Nachtomy concludes that Leibnizs definition of a possible individual as a program of action helps clarifying the unity and simplicity of nested individuals. The book thus reveals a thread that runs through Leibnizs metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones.
Review
"What is outstanding about this book is the clear line of analysis connecting Leibnizs views on possibilia in the divine mind with the determinants of contingent simple substances in the actual world. Nachtomy applies a similar analytic approach to the notions of complex substances and living beings, thus unveiling a new systemic configuration of Leibnizs metaphysics and philosophy of nature." -- François Duchesneau, Université de Montréal, Canada
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作者: Ohad Nachtomy (Author)
出版社: Springer; 1 edition (May 22, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1402052448
ISBN-13: 978-1402052446
Book Description
This work presents Leibnizs subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibnizs approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibnizs notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates.
Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in Gods understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action. He uses this definition to clarify Leibnizs notions of individuation, relations and his distinction between individual substances and aggregates as well as the notion of organic individuals, which have a nested structure to infinity. Nachtomy concludes that Leibnizs definition of a possible individual as a program of action helps clarifying the unity and simplicity of nested individuals. The book thus reveals a thread that runs through Leibnizs metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones.
Review
"What is outstanding about this book is the clear line of analysis connecting Leibnizs views on possibilia in the divine mind with the determinants of contingent simple substances in the actual world. Nachtomy applies a similar analytic approach to the notions of complex substances and living beings, thus unveiling a new systemic configuration of Leibnizs metaphysics and philosophy of nature." -- François Duchesneau, Université de Montréal, Canada
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