Chapter ID: CBB030829514

Leibniz’s Transcendental Aesthetic (2015)

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Though my title may suggest otherwise, I don’t want to argue that Leibniz actually had a transcendental philosophy, or that his account of space and time is in any way identical to that of Kant’s. My title is meant to be somewhat provocative. While I will not discuss Kant in any explicit way, the correspondences should be obvious. I hope that I got your attention, but, at the same time, I hope that I won’t strain your credulity. I want to show how for Leibniz, as for Kant, things in themselves, bodies, are in an important sense not geometrical. Instead, I will argue, geometrical extension, which Leibniz characterizes as “ideal” and radically distinct from concrete reality, is something external to the concrete world of bodies which we apply to them. I will begin by looking at some published and unpublished texts of Leibniz’s that deal with body, and its relation to force, motion, extension, and individuality, setting aside Leibniz’s views on the ultimate metaphysical foundations. Only after that will I then examine Leibniz’s views on the ultimate make-up of the world, be it corporeal substances or monads, and discuss the relation that that metaphysic has on the question of the relation between extension and body.

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Authors & Contributors
Watkins, Eric
Lefèvre, Wolfgang
Boccaccini, Federico
Fincham, Richard Mark
Casini, Paolo
Arthur, Richard
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Metaphysics
Physics
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
Italy
Germany
France
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