Noble, Christopher P.:
Self-Moving Machines and the Soul : Leibniz Contra Spinoza on the Spiritual Automaton

In: The Leibniz Review 27 (2017), 65-89

Contains bibliography: 80-83

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Contemporaries and context, Reception history, Comparison of theories
Subject: TIE
Subject (individuals): Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "For Spinoza, the soul acts as a spiritual automaton when it overcomes imaginative ideas and produces true ideas... for Leibniz contra Spinoza, the spiritual automaton is a means to render intelligible a providential or in which everything happens for the best." (abstract, p. 65)

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