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Die Epigenese der Leibniz’schen Philosophie nach Heinrich Schepers

par Pelletier, Arnaud
Référence Studia Leibnitiana, 56, page (163-176)
Publication Publié, 2024-12-01

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Heinrich Schepers challenged the dichotomy between genetic and systematic readings of Leibniz’s philosophy. He argued that the development of Leibniz’s metaphysics took the form neither of a linear and systematic evolution, nor of a simple succession of divergent formulations, but rather of the gradual unfolding of a single, fundamentally coherent metaphysical system. He proposed what we might call an ‘epigenetic’ model to describe this process, in which Leibniz’s central – rational – philosophical ideas remained permanent, yet were inflected and developed in response to changing contexts and external circumstances. This epigenetic approach allows for a more nuanced understanding of Leibniz’s ‘ways to a mature metaphysics’. However, in supporting the idea of a ‘rationalism by intention’ in Leibniz, it tends to downplay the constitutive role of experience in it.