1st Edition

Leibniz's Final System Monads, Matter, and Animals

By Glenn A. Hartz Copyright 2007
252 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the central figures of seventeenth-century philosophy, and a huge intellectual figure in his age. This book from Glenn A. Hartz (editor of the influential Leibniz Review) is an advanced study of Leibniz's metaphysics. Hartz analyzes a very complicated topic, widely discussed in contemporary commentaries on Leibniz, namely the question of whether Leibniz was a... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Substance   3. Mereology  4. Introduction to Aggregates  5. Idealist Analyses of Aggregates   6. Realist Analyses of Aggregates   7. Is Realism Compatible with Idealism?   8. Animals   9. A Final Look

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Glenn A. Hartz