Author

Publication

2007-05-22 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • ISBN-139781402052446
  • Goodreads3197070
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007440420
  • OCLC Control Number86075065
  • Better World Books9781402052446
  • Open LibraryOL11634156M

Classifications

  • LCCB108-5802B790-5802BD
  • LCCB2599.M7 N33 2007

Description

"This work presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz's approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role of divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz's notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's MetaphysicsHardcoverSpringer2007-05-22

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