Starting With Leibniz

by Woolhouse, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781847062048
• ISBN10: 1847062040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Introduces students To The life, work and ideas of Gottfried Leibniz, taking the reader new To The subject through the key themes of his writings.

Author Biography

Roger Woolhouse is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. His previous publications include John Locke: A Biography (CUP, 2007), Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz (Routledge, 1993), Leibniz: Philosophical Texts (OUP, 1998) and Leibniz's 'New System' (OUP, 1997).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Life and Works	p. 2
Leibniz's 'Fairy Tale'	p. 11
Substances	p. 17
Substance: Its General Characteristics	p. 17
Against Cartesian Corporeal Substance	p. 21
Complete Concepts	p. 23
Souls and Substantial Forms	p. 25
Complete Worlds Apart	p. 29
Substantial Forms Again	p. 33
Material Body	p. 36
Corporeal Substance Realism	p. 36
Idealism	p. 39
Phenomenalism	p. 40
Body as Monadic Aggregate	p. 41
Minds and Monads	p. 45
Leibnizian and Cartesian Minds: Human and Animal	p. 45
Monadic Perception, Appetition, and Embodiment	p. 51
Natural Philosophy	p. 57
The Mechanical Philosophy and Substantial Forms	p. 57
Matter and Passive Force	p. 59
Motion and Active Force	p. 63
Causation and the Metaphysics of Force	p. 72
Motion	p. 72
From Occasionalism to Pre-established Harmony	p. 73
Body and Mind	p. 79
Bodily Death	p. 79
Union of Mind and Body: Descartes and Malebranche	p. 83
Leibniz's Objections to Interactionism and Occasionalism	p. 86
Pre-established Harmony	p. 91
Space	p. 100
Correspondence with Clarke	p. 101
Sufficient Reason	p. 101
Identity of Indiscernibles	p. 102
Space as Absolute and as Relative	p. 103
God and Our Relation to Him	p. 108
God and Creation	p. 108
Proofs of the Existence of God	p. 110
God and His Relation to the Created World	p. 116
Contingency and Freedom	p. 119
Human Freedom	p. 119
Divine Freedom	p. 129
The Best of All Possible Worlds	p. 134
The Best World Metaphysically or Naturally	p. 135
The Best World Morally	p. 139
Evil in the Best Possible World	p. 143
Abbreviations and References	p. 149
Index	p. 158
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