Leibniz and the Substance of the Vinculum Substantiale

The Atomistic Approach in Leibniz and Indian Philosophy

“…(Cf. Blondel 1930;Look 1999) For Leibniz, an atom as a body consisting of one not further divided or divisible part, in other words, an atom as only and only a part, is the physical atom of Democritus, invariably connected with the concept of emptiness. Its impenetrability Leibniz considers to be only a form of manifestation ("phenomenon") of monad-substances, which in themselves are immaterial.…”

Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms

“…Leibniz does not agree with this last point in On transubstantiation since the matter of bread and wine does not individuate them as in Aquinas; in his mature metaphysics he maintains that the body retains its unity even when the individual dies, because the substantial form continues to ensure the unity. Since anima is rendered by l'ame in French and mens by pensée or l'esprit , this may have infl uenced Leibniz's thought about the 32 Look ( 1999 ), Blondel ( 1893), Boehm ( 1938, Robinet ( 1969 , pp. 32 In the beginning of the 1670s, before Leibniz's arrival at Paris, he replaced the model of divine ideas by what is called "the mentalization of body".…”

Blondel, Modern Catholic Theology and the Leibnizian Eucharistic Bond

“…the unlocalizable primary link that borders the absolute interior". He presents the vinculum equivocally as the possession of individual phenomena, whereas it is clear that in Leibniz's own theory the vinculum is able to exist independently of the composite form which it unifies, 76 because it is unity and reality.…”