Single Idea 7560

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter]

Full Idea

Leibniz seems never to have made up his mind completely on how to accommodate bodies within a metaphysic which recognises only soul-like entities as fully real.

Gist of Idea

Leibniz struggled to reconcile bodies with a reality of purely soul-like entities

Source

comment on Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Nicholas Jolley - Leibniz Intro

Book Reference

Jolley,Nicholas: 'Leibniz' [Routledge 2005], p.10


A Reaction

[The soul-like entities are his 'monads']. His choice must be to either say they are unreal, or that they are real and separate from the monads, or that they are a manifestation of the monads. His problem, not mine.