Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'works' and 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

13079	A substance contains the laws of its operations, and its actions come from its own depth [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Each indivisible substance contains in its nature the law by which the series of its operations continues, and all that has happened and will happen to it. All its actions come from its own depths, except for dependence on God.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Antoine Arnauld [1686], 1688.01.4/14)
	A reaction: I take the combination of 'laws' and 'forces', which Leibniz attributes to Aristotelian essences, to be his distinctive contribution towards giving us an Aristotelian metaphysic which is suitable for modern science.