Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in.... : Quote by Charles Taylor

“ Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God. ”

Charles Taylor
  • From : Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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