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| Terminology: This section explains special features of the language used by the individual authors. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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G.W. Leibniz on Terminology - Dictionary of Arguments
Holz I 12f Monadology/Monads/Leibniz: nobody will take monadology today simply as an explanatory scheme, but as a model response to possible problems that arise in the question of the unity of the manifoldness and the overall context. I 24 Pre-stabilized harmony/Leibniz: this reciprocal relation, regulated in every substance of the world from the beginning, which produces what we call its intercourse, and which alone constitutes the union of soul and body. "The hypothesis is quite possible." (LeibnizVsNewton: Newton: "hypotheses non fingo"). "It is a wonderful idea of the harmony of the universe and the perfection of the works of God." I 48 Ratiocinatio/Leibniz: Ratiocinato is building a theory of argumentation chains about an object. Obtaining true sentences. I 49 Monad/Leibniz/Holz: title for the unity of the substantial and the structural aspect of being, as substance and concept of structure in one. The reason for unity is the form determinateness of its all-round connection, not the linearity of a sequence or series. To this extent, the existence reason of the world (as the totality of the connection) is not in the world, but it conditions it as a world. I 109 Windowlessness/Monad/Leibniz: states that in metaphysical severity changes of a substance result only from internal processes,... I 110 ...because they alone are the manifestations of the original force as vis activa and their self-restraint as vis passiva. (No connection to Maturana). There is no means of explaining how a monad could be altered by any other creature, since nothing can be transferred into it, nor can there be any inner movement in it, as can be done in composed things, where there are changes between parts . "The monads have no windows through which anything could enter or get out of them." (KS 441). I 113 Immanence/Leibniz: immanence of the substance in the world Inherent: the world in the individual substance. I 116 Monad/Leibniz: Expressing that substance is only a structural substance. (Determined by the whole of the universe). Soul/Leibniz: how the soul forms the structural unity of its body and the latter disintegrates when the soul escapes, so the monad is the unit-forming structure of the material body. I 117 Monads/Leibniz: they must be real units "animated bodies" (not just mathematical points). Solution: their nature must be in force. But as the soul may not be used to provide information on details of the animal organism,... I 118 ...we must assume the monads as the original forces._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Lei II G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Texts (Oxford Philosophical Texts) Oxford 1998 Holz I Hans Heinz Holz Leibniz Frankfurt 1992 Holz II Hans Heinz Holz Descartes Frankfurt/M. 1994 |
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