NOCTUA

La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno

History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age




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Autore / Author: Marine Picon

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Titolo / Title: Doctrine des habitus et ordonnancement encyclopédique des disciplines chez Leibniz: la Nova Methodus Discendae Docendaeque Iurisprudentiae

Abstract: In the autumn of 1667, the young Leibniz published a «new method» for the science of law. Producing a revised edition of that early work was to become his lifelong project, to the purpose of which he wrote, in the 1690s, a succession of new versions of most of its sections. The main reason for this enduring interest was probably the fact that the juridical part of the treatise was preceded with a more general one, encapsulating in a few pages a systematic overview of the disciplines composing the baroque encyclopaedia, after the model of Johann Heinrich Alsted’s monumental Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta (1630). If Leibniz still depended on Alsted’s notion of philosophy as the «circle of disciplines», he deeply transformed that pre-Cartesian conception of knowledge by two decisive innovations: following Bacon, he defines each branch of demonstrative science as bearing on one single «quality», abstracted from the subjects in which it inheres; yet, contrary to Bacon, he no longer conceives of these qualities as the ultimate components of reality, but as those of our experience of it, marking the limit of the explanatory capacity of language.

Keywords: Johann Heinrich Alsted; Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta; law; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz; Francis Bacon.

English title: The Doctrine of “Habitus” and the Encyclopedic Order of Disciplines in Leibniz: The Nova Methodus Discendae Docendaeque Iurisprudentiae

DOI: 10.14640/NoctuaII10

Anno / Volume: II

Fascicolo / Issue: 1-2

Pagine / Pages: 402-431

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 15/06/2015

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaII10




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