Duchesneau François
Département de Philosophie, Université de Montréal.
Med Secoli. 2003;15(2):351-69.
This article takes into account Leibniz's notion of organism and its impact on Charles Bonnet's Considérations sur les corps oganisés (1762). Leibniz adopted mechanical, dynamical and teleological views to explain the structure and function of living bodies. He stressed the idea of continuity in animal generation, and held a moderate version of preformation in the field of embryology. Organisms are the outcome of the combination of infinite series of microstructures and of their powers. Bonnet adhered to Leibniz's principle of continuity in his investigations on th reproduction of the polyps. It is therefore apparent, as shown by Bonnet, that in the late XVIIIth century, Leibniz's notion of life played an important role in life sciences.
本文考量了莱布尼茨的有机体概念及其对夏尔·邦尼特的《关于有机物体的思考》（1762年）的影响。莱布尼茨采用机械论、动力学和目的论观点来解释生物体的结构和功能。他强调动物生殖中的连续性观念，并在胚胎学领域持有一种温和版本的预成论。有机体是无限系列微观结构及其力量相结合的产物。邦尼特在对水螅繁殖的研究中遵循了莱布尼茨的连续性原则。因此，正如邦尼特所表明的，在18世纪后期，莱布尼茨的生命概念在生命科学中发挥了重要作用。
