Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy

In Michael Alexander Stewart (ed.), Studies in seventeenth-century European philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 117-153 (1997)
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This paper describes the young Leibniz's strategy for combining aspects of Aristotelian metaphysics with the new mechanical account of nature, presents the main steps he took to that synthesis, and claims that he never wavered from its basic elements.

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