Anne-Lise Rey argues that the novelty of Leibniz’s introduction of his science of dynamics lies in the fact that he conceives of the action of a body as a motive action that is also, at bottom, an action directed toward itself. In pursuit of the animal hidden in the machine, the explanatory frame that the dynamics puts in place to account for action, in such a way that the action within the body as well as the relation between bodies and simple substances are simultaneously comprehended, can serve, Rey believes, as a foundation for thinking about the status of organic bodies and their relationship to the notion of substantiality.
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