The paper aims to establish whether the technical distinction introduced by scholars between “intra-monadic” and “inter-monadic” relations could also apply to the organic world. As is well known, the expression “intramonadic relations” denotates the relations which bind every individual with its internal representational states; whereas the expression “intermonadic relations” indicates the external relations, which every individual maintains with other monadic individuals. In my paper I will argue that this distinction, mutatis mutandis, might also be useful as well to differentiate the general level of “organic” qualities in bodies from the peculiar organic qualities, which are present just in living entities (like plants or animals). The ground for textual analysis will mainly be the text of the Animadversiones contra Stahl (also because in 2011 falls the anniversary of its last part, which was completed by Leibniz in 1711, when he wrote the last set of replicationes). The thesis will also be supported by other references, including the discussion of more advanced scholarly’ literature concerning these topics.

Is it plausible to distinguish between "intraorganic" and "interorganic" relations within Leibniz's theory of organic matter?

NUNZIANTE, ANTONIO MARIA
2011

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The paper aims to establish whether the technical distinction introduced by scholars between “intra-monadic” and “inter-monadic” relations could also apply to the organic world. As is well known, the expression “intramonadic relations” denotates the relations which bind every individual with its internal representational states; whereas the expression “intermonadic relations” indicates the external relations, which every individual maintains with other monadic individuals. In my paper I will argue that this distinction, mutatis mutandis, might also be useful as well to differentiate the general level of “organic” qualities in bodies from the peculiar organic qualities, which are present just in living entities (like plants or animals). The ground for textual analysis will mainly be the text of the Animadversiones contra Stahl (also because in 2011 falls the anniversary of its last part, which was completed by Leibniz in 1711, when he wrote the last set of replicationes). The thesis will also be supported by other references, including the discussion of more advanced scholarly’ literature concerning these topics.
2011
Natur und Subjekt
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