Leibniz on freedom of the being

Authors

  • Fabrício Fernandes Armond Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2007.89329

Keywords:

Contingency, Will, Being, Omnipotence, Form

Abstract

In this paper we intend to verify the way in which Leibniz establishes a notion of liberty able to do not contradict the conception of a world in which all events are previously determined. Therefore, we are going to examine the way in which Leibniz can dissolve the opposition between determination and contingency of the events by means of notion of being as action. Furthermore, we are going to indicate aspects in which the Leibnizian project is opposed to the Cartesian dualism of substances and intends to overcome its dilemmas related both to Physics, in consequence of the complete passivity of res extensa, and to Metaphysics, above all in the aspects that res cogitans appears as a kind of denial of res extensa. Such a denial will imply the notion of will as pure arbitrariness, which rejects its regulation by any principle, and it will establish reason as an instrument of arbitrary will

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Author Biography

  • Fabrício Fernandes Armond, Universidade de São Paulo
    Aluno de graduação do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2007-12-15

Issue

No. 17 (2007)

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How to Cite

Armond, F. F. (2007). Leibniz on freedom of the being. Cadernos Espinosanos, 17, 92-110. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2007.89329