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This work presents Leibniz s subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz s approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz s notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates.§Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in God s understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

• Full title: Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
• Author: Ohad Nachtomy
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781402052446
• ISBN: 1402052448
• ID: 02774443
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 1270 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2007

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