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024	7		_a10.1007/1-4020-3401-6 _2doi
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100	1		_aPhemister, Pauline. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLeibniz and the Natural World _h[electronic resource] : _bActivity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy / _cby Pauline Phemister.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands, _c2005.
300			_aXV, 293p. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aThe New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; _v58
505	0		_aSubstances: Public and Private -- Primary Matter -- Extension -- The Composition of Bodies -- The Composition of the Continuum -- Perceptions and Perceivers -- Phenomenal Bodies -- Derivative Forces -- Pre-Established Harmony -- Freedom.
520			_aIn 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 passivity; minds, souls and forms if there is also matter; good if there is evil; perfection if there is imperfection.
650		0	_aPHILOSOPHY (GENERAL).
650		0	_aPHILOSOPHY OF NATURE.
650	1	4	_aPHILOSOPHY.
650	2	4	_aPHILOSOPHY.
650	2	4	_aHISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.
650	2	4	_aPHILOSOPHY OF NATURE.
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773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781402034008
830		0	_aThe New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; _v58
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3401-6 _zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY
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