Abstract

KASAHARA, Javier. Una relectura leibniziana al mecanicismo. Eidos [online]. 2015, n.22, pp.35-48. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.22.5170.

This article aims to develop a second reading to the modern mechanicism. This implies that an appropriate understanding of mechanicism consists, above all, in considering it as a project, instead of a consolidated doctrinal system. To do so, we take Leibniz's philosophy as our building blocks, since unlike the Cartesianism, it does identify the inconsistencies implied when we conceive mechanicism as a complete philosophical system, mainly under the pretension to justify the natural world mechanically, that is, based on the figure, size and movement. It does not imply that Leibniz rejects entirely mechanicism, but allows us to understand it as a mean to develop his philosophy, proposing a complementary relationship between final cause and efficient cause. This way, mechanicism is re-posed as a methodological issue for the natural science instead of a metaphysical issue.

Keywords : mechanicism; efficient cause; final cause; Garber; Leibniz.

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