Leibnez - Communication of Substances

New System of the Nature of the Communication of Substances

1. On the system of occasion causes (March 1689).
1. The true reason of the union between should and body.
1. And why the adjust to each other.
2. Is because they are different substances of the same system
1. And the laws of their own nature harmonize with each other.

• New system of the nature of the communication of substances.
• Nature works with extended mass
• The function in natural understandable laws.
• And through the mechanics of mathematics
• but force is also needed to describe action.
• It is metaphysical in nature.

• Primitive Forces
• First causes.
• Original activity.
• The actuality or the fulfillment of possibility.

• Form and soul are invisible.
• The only being through by creation and end in annihilation.
• The soul of the mind, or the rational soul is of a higher order.

• The author distinguishes between brute souls and human souls.
• Human souls are so well provided that their morality can not be extinguished by death.
• Animals are not necessarily born,
• Nor do they die.
• The are attributed to the mechanical nature of the universe.
• Humans are attributed to the great wisdom and goodness of the universe.

• The realm of nature is different than the realm of man.
• Man contains workmanship.
• It is the difference between the small and the great.

• Atoms are like mass
• The exist as mass in the mechanical,
• but they also require some force to foster interaction and movement.
• The same can be said of man.
• It is god that compels action and movement.
• God is Deus ex machina

Philosophy is the search to determine how things are carried out by the great wisdom.

• Man is compelled through his own nature from within, as
• With a perfect harmony from things outside it. 
• Perception and the senses are the extension of the should (inside) reaching to the external.

• The soul is subject to constant change,
• and it adjusts to continually shifting representations. 
• The soul adjusts to changes in the universe.
• And it has the power to express these changes - Communication.

• Each mind is like a world apart
• True to its own nature
• True to its own interpretation - of change
• True to its own expressions.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. “New System of the Nature of the Communication of substances.” Philosophy of Communication. G. Change and G Butchart (Ed). Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 61-68. 2012. Print