Monday, February 7, 2011

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the Material, Immaterial, and Activity

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"I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general."

-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Anthony Quinton and Bryan Magee talk about Spinoza and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:

Primary Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Secondary Source: Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber

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