Motion, sensation, and the infinite: The lasting impression of Hobbes on Leibniz

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 339-351

  Wilson, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 61249570949     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09608789708570970     Document Type: Note

References (30)

1. Catholic Demonstrations in Gerhardt, ed., Philosophische Schriften, VI.-109. See Daniel Garber, Motion and Metaphysics in the young Leibniz, in M. Hooker, ed., Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays, Manchester, Manchester UP, 1982, pp. 106-84
2. This stability is emphasized in Margaret J. Osier, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994
3. This suggestion was made by Margaret Wilson, 'Leibniz and Materialism', Canadian journal of Philosophy 3 (1974) pp. 495-513
4. Catholic Demonstrations, in Gerhardt, ed., Phiiosophische Schriften, IV:105
5. Philosophische Schriften, 7 vols., ed. C. I. Gerhardt, Hildesheim, Olms, 1960, IV:46
6. See F. Duchesneau, La Dynamisme de Leibniz, Paris: J. Vrin, 1994, p. 17ff
7. On Hobbes and Leibniz see also Ferdinand Toennies, 'Leibniz und Hobbes', in Studien zur Philosophie und Gesellschaftslehre im 17. ]ahrhundert ed. E. G. Jacoby, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1975, pp. 151-68, and Konrad Moll, 'Die erste Monadenkonzeption von Leibniz und ihr Ausgangspunkt in Conatus-Begriff und Perzeptionstheorie von Thomas Hobbes', Proceedings of the V International Leibniz-Kongress, Hannover, 1988
8. Hobbes, Philosophical Problems in English Works, ed. W. Molesworth, London: Bohn, 1939, VII:7-9
9. Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, in English Works, VII:99
10. Hobbes, Philosophical Problems, in English Works, VII:32
11. Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, English Works, VII:135
12. Hobbes, Philosophical Problems, English Works, VII:34
13. Hobbes, Elements of Body, English Works, 1:390-1
14. Leibniz, Theoria Motus Abstract!, Philosophische Schriften, ed. Gerhardt, IV:230
15. On Truths, the Mind, God and the Universe, De Summa Rerum, in De Summa Rerum tr. and ed. G. H. R. Parkinson, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992, p. 61
16. Letter to Hobbes, tr. L. Loemker, Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters, 2nd ed., Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1969, p. 107
17. Catholic Demonstrations, tr. Loemker, p. 116
18. Saemtliche Schriften, VI:III:301
19. Nicholas Jolley, Leibniz and Locke, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984
20. New Essays, translated by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. 55-6
21. Locke, Essay II:VIII:13. ed. Nidditch p. 136-7
22. Hobbes, Elements of Body Pt. IV in English Works, 1:488. Cf. Leibniz, New Essays, Saemtiiche Schriften, ed. Dt. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1920, VI:IV:54
23. New Essays p. 54
24. Elements of Body, Pt III, English Works, 1:216-7
25. New Essays, p. 112. Cf. First Truths, in Leroy Loemker, tr. and ed., Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters, 2nd ed. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1969, p. 270: 'Every individual substance exerts physical action and passion on all others .... This is confirmed by our experience of nature, for we observe that in a vessel full of liquid (the whole universe is such a vessel) a motion made in the middle is propagated to the edges, though it may become more and more insensible as it recedes farther from its origin'. Since a body 'is affected by all other things in the entire world and receives some effect from all, which must cause a change in the body, it has even preserved all past impressions and anticipates the future ones'
26. Hobbes, English Works, I:488
27. Leibniz, New Essays, p. 56
28. Locke, Essay IV:III:6
29. See for example, Donald Rutherford, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 255-8
30. For criticism of some main lines of endeavor, see Catherine Wilson, 'Reply to Jan Cover', Leibniz Society Newsletter 4 (1994), pp. 5-8