pre-established harmony
1pre-established harmony — The divinely established relation, according to Leibniz, between body and mind, with the movements of monads and the succession of ideas being in constant agreement like two clocks • • • Main Entry: ↑harmony pre established harmony see under… …
2Pre-established harmony — Gottfried Leibniz s theory of pre established harmony is a philosophical theory about causation under which every substance only affects itself, but all the substances (both bodies and minds) in the world nevertheless seem to causally interact… …
3pre-established harmony — Doctrine advanced by Leibniz to explain the fact that the world of experience is not chaotic, although each monad develops without relation to any other, purely in virtue of its own internal nature. The solution was that just as two clocks can… …
4Harmony — This article is about musical harmony and harmonies. For other uses of the term, see Harmony (disambiguation). Disharmony redirects here. For the episode of Angel, see Disharmony (Angel) …
5pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th …
6New Harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825. 945. * * * ▪ Indiana, United States town, Posey county, southwestern Indiana, U.S. It is located on the Wabash River at the Illinois border, 28 miles (45 km)… …
7Biology (Philosophy of) in the nineteenth century — Philosophy of biology in the nineteenth century Jagdish Hattiangadi THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY The emergence of biology as a unified subject Students of history and of biology share a common delight: as they study the details of any subject, they… …
8Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …
9System of Leibniz — The System of Leibniz † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The System of Leibniz I. LIFE OF LEIBNIZ Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born at Leipzig on 21 June (1 July), 1646. In 1661 he entered the University of Leipzig as a student of… …
10Gottfried Leibniz — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 18th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE |250px image caption = Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz name = Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz birth = 1 July (21 June Old Style) 1646, Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony …
