One of the most interesting aspects of Leibniz’s philosophy is the distinction between “art” and “nature”; the core of this matter is the possibility (or even the impossibility) of distinguishing as clearly as possible between two ontological domains:on one hand the products of technique (such as “artificial machines”), on the other hand all the beings that can be defined as natural (“natural machines”). It is about this philosophical problem that scholars have often disagreed . The question is if it is possibile to build ontological criteria which can be clear enough to distinguish between the products of nature and those of technique in the field of the “res” that they are. Apparently, Leibniz himself is sometimes ambiguous about this distinction, and this is the cause of the hermeneutic disagreement among scholars, though it also gives the chance to discuss about this subject widely, since this (only apparent) ambivalence seems to have become more and more intriguing.

"Corpus vivens est Automaton sui perpetuativum ex naturae instituto". Some Remarks on Leibniz's Distinction between "Machina naturalis" and "Organica artificialia"

NUNZIANTE, ANTONIO MARIA
2004

Abstract

One of the most interesting aspects of Leibniz’s philosophy is the distinction between “art” and “nature”; the core of this matter is the possibility (or even the impossibility) of distinguishing as clearly as possible between two ontological domains:on one hand the products of technique (such as “artificial machines”), on the other hand all the beings that can be defined as natural (“natural machines”). It is about this philosophical problem that scholars have often disagreed . The question is if it is possibile to build ontological criteria which can be clear enough to distinguish between the products of nature and those of technique in the field of the “res” that they are. Apparently, Leibniz himself is sometimes ambiguous about this distinction, and this is the cause of the hermeneutic disagreement among scholars, though it also gives the chance to discuss about this subject widely, since this (only apparent) ambivalence seems to have become more and more intriguing.
2004
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