Kinds of Unity, Modes of Union. Pasini, E. In Einheit in der Vielheit, Akten des VIII. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongreß, pages 780–787, Hannover, 2006. Leibniz-Gesellschaft.
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Kinds of unity, modes of union—why bother? Does Leibniz ever focus on “union”, anyway? It is not before 1713 that Leibniz gets rid of certain metaphysical concerns which, although secondary for him, were present to his mind since the time of his 1708 answer to Tournemine, who had bespoken a “real union” between the soul and the body (GP VI, 595-96). Nonetheless, this very text shows that for Leibniz unity and union don’t partake an equivalent metaphysical dignity. In a short text that might be dated to 1709, he writes down a very clean description of a quite innovative model of the “composite substance”, the same “substance composée” that will be quietly adopted in the PNG and the Monadology. Not much later Leibniz will write to Rémond about a kind of composition, unexpectedly labeled by Leibniz “metaphysical union”, that comes to pass, not in the form of some “unio substantialis superaddita”, or “union reelle”, but, we might say, as part of a general unio ad modum harmoniæ. But before of that Leibniz had developed a complex theory of the 'substantiatum', and two unpublished texts of his concerning this theory are presented and discussed.
@inproceedings{pasini_kinds_2006,
	address = {Hannover},
	title = {Kinds of {Unity}, {Modes} of {Union}},
	isbn = {978-3-9808167-1-7},
	doi = {10.17613/792z-eb89},
	abstract = {Kinds of unity, modes of union—why bother? Does Leibniz ever focus on “union”, anyway? It is not before 1713 that Leibniz gets rid of certain metaphysical concerns which, although secondary for him, were present to his mind since the time of his 1708 answer to Tournemine, who had bespoken a “real union” between the soul and the body (GP VI, 595-96). Nonetheless, this very text shows that for Leibniz unity and union don’t partake an equivalent metaphysical dignity. In a short text that might be dated to 1709, he writes down a very clean description of a quite innovative model of the “composite substance”, the same “substance composée” that will be quietly adopted in the PNG and the Monadology. Not much later Leibniz will write to Rémond about a kind of composition, unexpectedly labeled by Leibniz “metaphysical union”, that comes to pass, not in the form of some “unio substantialis superaddita”, or “union reelle”, but, we might say, as part of a general unio ad modum harmoniæ. But before of that Leibniz had developed a complex theory of the 'substantiatum', and two unpublished texts of his concerning this theory are presented and discussed.},
	language = {eng},
	booktitle = {Einheit in der {Vielheit}, {Akten} des {VIII}. {Internationalen} {Leibniz}-{Kongreß}},
	publisher = {Leibniz-Gesellschaft},
	author = {Pasini, Enrico},
	year = {2006},
	keywords = {Substance, Unity},
	pages = {780--787},
}

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