Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical ExpositionDewey, John
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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition
Dewey, John
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
Distinction of Empirical from Rational Knowledge 107
CHAPTER VI.
The Impulses and the Will.
The Doctrine of Will depends upon that of Intelligence 109
The Character of Impulse 111
Of Desire 112
Half-Pains and Pleasures 113
The Outcome of Desire 115
Nature of Moral Action 117
Of Freedom 118
(1) Freedom as Contingency 119
Limitation of this Principle 121
(2) Freedom as Spontaneity 123
This Principle is too Broad to be a Moral Principle 125
(3) True Freedom is Rational Action 125
Our Lack of Freedom is due to our Sensuous Nature 128
Innate Practical Principles 129
Moral Science is Demonstrative 130
CHAPTER VII.
Matter and its Relation to Spirit.
Locke's Account of Matter and Allied Ideas the Foundation of the
Philosophy of Nature Characteristic of British Empiricism 132
Space and Matter wholly Distinct Ideas 134
Leibniz gives Matter a Metaphysical Basis 137
Ordinary Misunderstanding of Leibniz's Ideas of Matter 138
Matter is not composed of Monads 139
Matter is the Passive or Conditioned Side of Monads 140
Passivity equals "Confused Representations," _i. e._ Incomplete
Development of Reason 144
Matter is logically Necessary from Leibniz's Principles 145
Bearing of Discussion upon Doctrine of Pre-established Harmony 146
Summary 147
CHAPTER VIII.
Material Phenomena and their Reality.
What is the Connection between Matter as Metaphysical and as
Physical? 151
The Latter is the "Image" of the Former 151
Leibniz's Reaction from Cartesian Theory 152
His Objections are (1) Physical and (2) Logical 153
(1) Motion is Source of Physical Qualities of Bodies 155
Hence there are no Atoms 158
Secondary Qualities as well as Primary depend upon Motion 160
(2) What is the Subject to which the Quality of Extension
belongs? 161
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