Self and Substance in Leibniz

• Main Author: Bobro, Marc Elliott (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; History of Philosophy.

There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, writes that “the monad … is nothing but a 1 représentation (in both senses of the French word) of Leibniz...

Table of Contents:

• Am I Essentially a Person?
• What Makes Me a Person?
• What Makes Me The Same Person?
• Could Thinking Machines Be Moral Agents?
• Why Bodies?
• What Makes My Survival Meaningful?.