The influence of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont on Leibniz’s monadology

• Authors: Skowron Adam

Title variants

PL

Wpływ Franciszka Merkuriusza van Helmonta na monadologię Leibniza

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the influence of the Flemish philosopher Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (1614-1699) on G.W. Leibniz’s monadological system. It shows the convergence of some of van Helmont’s views expressed in A Cabbalistical Dialogue and Paradoxal Discourses (like, for example, a concept of the monad), and presents also the differences between van Helmont’s monadological system and the later Leibnizian one.

Keywords

EN

monad; monadology; modern philosophy; 17th century philosophy; Leibniz; Van Helmont

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 167-180

Contributors

author

Skowron Adam

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31 - 044 Kraków, Poland