In a highly significant article, Montgomery Furth argues that Leibniz's monad is also the result of
the Cartesian phenomenology of the «First Meditation.
Not exact matches
The earlier
phenomenology stressed the lived - body (le corps propre) as against the objective body studied in the sciences, and a body - consciousness as opposed to a non-corporeal
Cartesian cogito.
But one does not have to be a
Cartesian to suppose that sight or visual perception has a
phenomenology, any more than one has to be a
Cartesian to maintain that pain is necessarily conscious.