Heinrich Schepers (MŸnster): Neues
Ÿber Zeit und Raum bei Leibniz
LeibnizÕs theory of
space and time is based on the action
of simple substances which constitute themselves by their actions.
This applies to substances that come into existence as well as to those that remain
a possibility. They do not act within
space and time but constitute space and time by virtue of their
own intrinsic activity. This certainly requires,
as Leibniz demands, a kind
of Copernican turn around
in our minds. As long as 30 years before his well-known epistolatory exchange with Samuel Clarke he had laid the basis
of his revolutionary theory
which, being metaphysical, could not expect to receive
the acceptance of the science-orientated Clarke or his master Newton. This paper tries
to explain this new insight by
looking at the development of the conception of space and time as concepts of order or as relations
and not as real things or substances.
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