The Heart Is Not an Animated Body: Machines of Nature, Functional Organs and Monadic Domination in Leibniz

For the mature Leibniz, the organic bodies of living beings or substances are “machines of nature” containing both infinitely many (a) functional bodily organs and (b) further substances. These latter substances are said to be dominated by or subordinate to the original substance. I show that commen...

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Main Author: Christopher P Noble
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2024-04-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/article/id/1889/
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