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- Title
Introduction: Material Substance and Quantity, from Suárez to Leibniz.
- Authors
Anfray, Jean-Pascal; Schmaltz, Tad M.
- Abstract
The articles in this special issue are selected from the papers presented at the conference I La substance matérielle dans la scolastique tardive et la philosophie moderne i , held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris on 16-17 March 2017. Suárez raises the issue of the relation of a material substance to its "quantity", asserting that quantity is a "real accident" that renders the extended parts of a material substance impenetrable. We find a very different "modern" account of quantity in the work of Descartes's younger contemporary Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), who, unlike Suárez and Descartes, emphasizes that quantity is composed of parts that have merely "potential" existence before being actually divided.
- Subjects
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716; SUAREZ, Francisco, 1548-1617; CONFERENCE papers
- Publication
Vivarium, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 3, p141
- ISSN
0042-7543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15685349-12341381