SISTEMI, STRUTTURE, SFORZI, MOTI. L¿ANALOGIA TRA SCIENZE FISICO-MATEMATICHE E SCIENZE CIVILI NELLA FILOSOFIA DI G.W. LEIBNIZ
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description: The research aims at tracing underlying connections, in Leibniz’s writings, between ethical, legal and political science – on the one side –, and physics, mechanics, biology, and his later dynamics – on the other. More clearly: this research undertakes to fully uncover existing convergences and underlying analogies between “Natural Science” and “Civil Science”, i.e. between the analysis of the properties and forces that regulate collision – and, more generally, competition (concursum) and cohesion – in physical bodies and systems, and the analysis of the features and mechanisms underlying associated life, unity and cohesion, in socio-political bodies and systems. The search for these connections is theoretically grounded in some theological-metaphysical tenets which essentially bring all systems together in Leibniz’s thought. By “systems” I mean all sets of elements originally organized and disposed by God in such a way that they can be said to be regulated by ordinary means, namely laws. This analogy draws its initial drive by the Hobbes-inspired idea that motion is the elementary explanatory unit of all reality, capable of connecting the three essential elements of philosophy: corpus, homo and civis. The goal of the research is thus to show how Leibniz came to develop this idea in his own original terms and within his own philosophical framework. The pattern underlying the structures in a unitary physical system is to be found through the discovery of the laws that regulate interactions – in terms of competition, collision and coordination (conspiratio) – between the parts, and of the related “biological” conditions that make internal cohesion possible in each structure. Likewise, the pattern underlying the structures in a unitary civil system is to be found through the discovery of the laws and the related “biological” configuration of the parts at the basis of a coherent and enduring composition in each body / structure, which regulate interactions in terms of d…
abstract: The research aims at tracing underlying connections, in Leibniz’s writings, between ethical, legal and political science – on the one side –, and physics, mechanics, biology, and his later dynamics – on the other. More clearly: this research undertakes to fully uncover existing convergences and underlying analogies between “Natural Science” and “Civil Science”, i.e. between the analysis of the properties and forces that regulate collision – and, more generally, competition (concursum) and cohesion – in physical bodies and systems, and the analysis of the features and mechanisms underlying associated life, unity and cohesion, in socio-political bodies and systems. The search for these connections is theoretically grounded in some theological-metaphysical tenets which essentially bring all systems together in Leibniz’s thought. By “systems” I mean all sets of elements originally organized and disposed by God in such a way that they can be said to be regulated by ordinary means, namely laws. This analogy draws its initial drive by the Hobbes-inspired idea that motion is the elementary explanatory unit of all reality, capable of connecting the three essential elements of philosophy: corpus, homo and civis. The goal of the research is thus to show how Leibniz came to develop this idea in his own original terms and within his own philosophical framework. The pattern underlying the structures in a unitary physical system is to be found through the discovery of the laws that regulate interactions – in terms of competition, collision and coordination (conspiratio) – between the parts, and of the related “biological” conditions that make internal cohesion possible in each structure. Likewise, the pattern underlying the structures in a unitary civil system is to be found through the discovery of the laws and the related “biological” configuration of the parts at the basis of a coherent and enduring composition in each body / structure, which regulate interactions in terms of d…
author: MANZO, FIORENZA
language: ita
keywords: Theory of Motion, Physic, Mechanic, Dynamic, Biology, Politic, Civil Science, Scientific Epistemology, Mereology, Structure, Tendecie, Systems, Settore M-FIL/06 - Storia della Filosofia
date published: 2023-09-14
date modified: 2026-07-27T20:18:53Z
provider: Università degli Studi di Milano
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Università degli Studi di Milano

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