Vinculum substantiale
Vinculum substantiale ( Latin for "substantial volume") is a central term in the late philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , which he developed in detail in 1713 in his letters to the Jesuit Bartholomäus des Bosses .
Leibniz's theory of the substantial band fills a gap in his monadology and his philosophy of individuality : In contrast to the atoms of atomism , the monads are, according to his conception, living units capable of perception and striving for, and it must therefore be explained what is between them Perception and the perceived outside world. To this end, Leibniz developed the concept of the substantial band. He often uses the term synonymously with substantia corporea ("physical substance ").
The problem of the unity of body and perception had become acute in connection with Descartes ' dualistic separation of body and mind, but it has a long precedent in late medieval scholasticism .
From Leibniz's usage the term entered the philosophical colloquial language without being dependent on the special preconditions of Leibniz's metaphysics : Here it describes a context that is more than merely external.
literature
- Look, Brandon: Leibniz and the 'Vinculum Substantiale'. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999. (= Studia Leibnitiana - special edition volume 30). ISBN 3515076239
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chun-Fa Liu: The metaphysical basis of the controversy about the concept of force between Descartes and Leibniz, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, p. 116. ISBN 978-3161526183