<研究論文(原著論文)>Leibniz and "Biology" --A historical and philosophical consideration

Abstract

According to the recent trend of international Leibniz study we explore historical and philosophical topics of life and “biology” such as the issues of mechanical philosophy of animals since Descartes and of the genetics in connection with conceptions of “evolution” at the infancy of biology. Leibniz's view is remarkable not only both for and against the mechanical and atomist philosophy of lives by his attitude for the mechanical explanations of bodies and his “rehabilitation of substantial form” at the same time, but also in his insight to combine of reproduction of lives with “evolution” of a different spices in extraordinary time, although his evolutionism is “developmental” in contrast to the genuine Darwinism. However it must be confirmed that through this speculation Leibniz realizes the “temporalization” of the great chain of being or the temporal continuity of all lives including rational animal in his “philosophical biology.”