By Pauline Phemister
The paintings of seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has proved inspirational to philosophers and scientists alike. during this thought-provoking publication, Pauline Phemister explores the ecological capability of Leibniz’s dynamic, pluralist, panpsychist, metaphysical procedure. She argues that Leibniz’s philosophy has a renewed relevance within the twenty-first century, quite in terms of the environmental switch and crises that threaten human and non-human lifestyles on earth.
Drawing on Leibniz’s idea of soul-like, interconnected metaphysical entities he termed 'monads', Phemister explains how an individual’s precise solid is inextricably associated with the great of all. Phemister additionally unearths in Leibniz’s works the rudiments of a concept of empathy and techniques for strengthening human emotions of compassion in the direction of all residing things.
Leibniz and the Environment is vital analyzing for historians of philosophy and environmental philosophers, and also will be of curiosity to an individual looking a metaphysical viewpoint from which to pursue environmental motion and policy.
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