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Self and Substance in Leibniz
Marc Elliott Bobro
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Description for Self and Substance in Leibniz
hardcover. Shows that Leibniz offers a coherent theory of personal identity, a theory that stands on its own even next to Locke's contemporaneous version. This book is of interest to students of Leibniz's thought and to philosophers and psychologists interested in methodological problems in understanding or formulating theories of self and personal identity. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 396.
There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, writes that “the monad … is nothing but a 1 représentation (in both senses of the French word) of Leibniz’s personality in metaphysical symbols; and there was, under contemporary circumstances, no need 2 to ‘introduce’ this concept apart from ‘propounding’ it. ” It is not clear what Meyer means here except that from the consideration of his own self, in some way Leibniz comes to his concept of simple substance, ... Read more
There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, writes that “the monad … is nothing but a 1 représentation (in both senses of the French word) of Leibniz’s personality in metaphysical symbols; and there was, under contemporary circumstances, no need 2 to ‘introduce’ this concept apart from ‘propounding’ it. ” It is not clear what Meyer means here except that from the consideration of his own self, in some way Leibniz comes to his concept of simple substance, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402020247
SKU
V9781402020247
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