The perspectivist theory of G.W. Leibniz: from the epistemological reading of perspective science to the metaphysical affirmation of plurality

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ashf.92347
Keywords: G.W. Leibniz, perspective science, representation, epistemology, perception, perspectivism, metaphysics

Abstract

The paper reconstructs the perspectivist theory of G.W. Leibniz. At first, the epistemological aspect of Leibnizian perspectivism is analysed. The theory of cognitive clarity-darkness allows, at that initial moment, to characterize the perceptual particularity like a perspective of the universe. Leibniz’s writings on perspective science, recently transcribed, are used to analyse the senses of the concepts, coming from the said science, that the German thinker uses to explain the cognitive act.  The perspectivist explanation of cognition gives rise to an immanent conception of perception: substance’s perspective is the result of the relationship between the force of representation and the universe. It is analysed, then, how the concept of point of view allows to describe the cognitive function of mediation that the body plays between the force of representation and the universe. That perspectivist explanation of perceptual particularity is, at the same time, an affirmation of the metaphysical plurality of the universe.

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Ricardo Rodríguez Hurtado, Universidad de Murcia

En 2020 obtuve el Doctorado en Filosofía, con mención Internacional, por la Universidad de Granada. El título de la tesis fue "Análisis y reconstrucción del concepto de perspectiva en la obra científica y filosofica de G.W. Leibniz". Los directores del trabajo de investigación fueron Juan A. Nicolás y Manuel Sánchez. El curso 2021-2022 fui contratado, como docente, por la Universidad de Almería, en el Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Humanidades, en área de Filosofía. En  curso 2022-2023 me contrató, como docente, la Universidad de Jaén, en el Departamento de Derecho Penal, Filosofía del Derecho, Filosofía Moral y Filosofía, en el área de Filosofía.  Actualmente trabajo, como docente, en la Universidad de Murica, en la Facultad de Filosofía, en área de Estética y Teoría de las Artes. 

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Published
2024-05-28
How to Cite
Rodríguez Hurtado R. (2024). The perspectivist theory of G.W. Leibniz: from the epistemological reading of perspective science to the metaphysical affirmation of plurality . Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 41(2), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.5209/ashf.92347
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Vol. 41 No. 2 (2024)
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Estudios

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