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Possibility, agency, and individuality in Leibniz's metaphysics / by Ohad Nachtomy.
- Title
- Possibility, agency, and individuality in Leibniz's metaphysics / by Ohad Nachtomy.
- Author
- Nachtomy, Ohad.
- Publication
- Dordrecht : Springer, c2007.
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- Description
- xii, 268 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- New synthese historical library, 0082-111X ; v. 61
- Uniform Title
- New synthese historical library ; v. 61.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Possibility. Leibniz's combinatorial approach to possibility -- Possible individuals -- The individual's place in logical space -- Individuals, worlds and relations -- pt. 2. Agency. Possibility and actuality -- Agency and freedom -- Agency and necessity -- pt. 3. Individuality. Aggregates -- Nested individuals -- Possibility and individuality.
- ISBN
- 9781402052446 (hd. bd. : alk. paper)
- 1402052448 (hd. bd. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007440420
- OCLC
- 86075065
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library