Kurztext

What is reality? Is it what appears to me, or what appears to most, or even what appears to some minds? Or should it rather be characterised as that which resists, as that which does not depend on me, or as that which exists anyway? And is the sense of "what is real" actually grasped by such idealist and realist conceptions? German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) addressed the different aspects of this difficult issue through sustained and constant attention. By examining these aspects, the contributions gathered in this volume follow a dual purpose. First, they intend to reflect the diversity of the objects that triggered Leibniz's thoughts. In particular, they provide new insights into Leibniz's understanding of not only the reality of dreams, the properties and relations of things, the soul, and mathematical objects, but also the reality of space and time or the theological problem of the Eucharist. Second, they intend to overcome the overly unilateral debate between the idealist and realist readings of Leibniz's last metaphysics that have pervaded interpretations over the past 30 years.

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Christian Leduc, Archives de Philosophie 80, 2017/3

Autoren

• Körper, Geist, Monaden (Band 56)
• Pierre Gassendi und die Probleme des Empirismus (Band 55)
• Leibniz und das Naturrecht (Band 54)
• Leibniz and the Invention of Mathematical Transcendence (Band 53)
• Leibniz and the European Encounter with China (Band 52)
• Harmonie und Realität (Band 51)
• Leibniz in Latenz (Band 50)
• Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Harmony (Band 49)
• Kausalität und Teleologie bei G. W. Leibniz (Band 48)
• Leibniz, Caroline und die Folgen der englischen Sukzession (Band 47)
• Leibniz’s experimental philosophy (Band 46)
• Leibniz and the aspects of reality (Band 45)
• "Das Recht kann nicht ungerecht sein …" (Band 44)
• Leibniz et Bayle : Confrontation et dialogue (Band 43)
• "Leibniz" in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Band 42)
• Leibniz und die Ökumene (Band 41)
• Lectures et interprétations des Essais de théodicée de G. W. Leibniz (Band 40)
• Metaphysik und Methode (Band 39)
• Leibniz neu denken (Band 38)
• Leibniz und die Entstehung der Modernität (Band 37)
• L’idée de théodicée de Leibniz à Kant: héritage, transformations, critiques (Band 36)
• The Philosophy of the Young Leibniz (Band 35)
• Leibniz und das Judentum (Band 34)
• Leibnizbilder im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Band 33)
• Individuals, Minds and Bodies:
  Themes from Leibniz (Band 32)
• Kausalität und Naturgesetz in der Frühen Neuzeit (Band 31)
• Leibniz and the "Vinculum Substantiale" (Band 30)
• Labora diligenter (Band 29)
• Leibniz und Niedersachsen (Band 28)
• Philosophenphilosophie und Schulphilosophie (Band 27)
• Leibniz´s Science of the Rational (Band 26)
• Essenz, Perfektion, Existenz (Band 25)
• La notion de nature chez Leibniz (Band 24)
• Die individuelle Substanz bei Böhme und Leibniz (Band 23)
• Leibniz und die Frage nach der Subjektivität (Band 22)
• Gott als Grund der Welt im Denken des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Band 20)