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Single Idea 16710

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science]

Full Idea

Leibniz made a sustained attempt to combine a mechanistic physics with something like a scholastic metaphysics.

Gist of Idea

Leibniz tried to combine mechanistic physics with scholastic metaphysics

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 20.1

Book Reference

Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.432


A Reaction

This seems to me clear enough, and a lot of current philosophers seem to underestimate how Aristotelian Leibniz was.