| 单词 | pre-established harmony |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspre-established harmony pre-established harmony, in the philosophy of Leibniz, a harmony between mind and matter, e.g. between the body and soul, established before their creation, whereby their actions correspond though no communication exists between them.extracted from harmonyn.pre-established harmony pre-established harmony n. [after French harmonie préétablie (1710 in Leibniz); compare post-classical Latin harmonia praestabilitata (1739 in Leibniz, or earlier)] Philosophy (in Leibniz's philosophy) the theory that God so devised the monads (see monad n. 2) at creation that they appear to interact causally, although no communication actually exists between them; the organization of the universe as posited by this theory (as a proposed solution to the mind-body problem). ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Harmony A pre-establish'd Harmony between the Kingdoms of Nature and Grace. 1799 C. Butler Acct. Life & Writings A. Butler 10 He did not admire them [sc. the works of Woolfe and Leibnitz], and thought the system of pre-established harmony laid down in them, irreconcileable with the received belief or opinions of the Roman Catholic Church on the soul. 1900 B. Russell Crit. Expos. Philos. Leibnitz (1937) xi. 136 To explain how preconceptions give knowledge of present external things, Leibnitz [sic] invented the..pre-established harmony. 2001 Philos. Rev. 110 45 A second important a priori defense of unconscious perception rests on Leibniz's principle of pre-established harmony. < as lemmas |
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