The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz 's best known works of his later philosophy. It is a short text which presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics …
The term monad (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monas) 'unity' and μόνος (monos) 'alone') [1] is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most basic or original substance. As …
The Monad, of which we shall here speak, is nothing but a simple substance, which enters into compounds. By ‘simple’ is meant ‘without parts.’ (Theod. 10.) 2. And there must be simple …
Leibniz calls this simple stuff ‘monads’. The next step is to see what we can infer about the features of these newly titled monads just based on their absolute simplicity.
2024年2月13日 · How does Gottfried Leibniz describe the most basic kind of substance that makes up the world, and how does it fit into his philosophical system? What is the most basic …
2023年6月8日 · According to Leibniz, a monad is an indivisible substance that possesses its own unique properties. Each monad is a distinct entity, separate from all others, and is not …
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEIBNIZ'S MONADISM. HE study of the Monadology may be comprised in A three stages. In the first we isolate the work; with no other aid than the …