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Monadology. Monadology. 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 of simple substances, or monads .
The assumption here is that all natural creation and destruction is a putting together, or a falling apart, of parts and pieces. As monads have no parts, they can’t ‘fall apart’ or be ‘put together’. Thus their creation and destruction can only happen ‘super-naturally’, that is, beyond the purview of the natural order.
1. 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 substances, since there are compounds; for a compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simple things. →. 3.
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e. 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 originally conceived by the Pythagoreans, the Monad is the Supreme Being, divinity or the totality of all things. According to some philosophers ...
Dec 22, 2007 · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history.
Abstract. Written in 1714, the “Monadology” is widely regarded as a classic statement of much of Leibniz’s mature philosophical system. In just 90 numbered paragraphs, Leibniz outlines—and argues for—the core features of his system, starting with his famous doctrine of monads (simple substances) and ending with the uplifting claim that God is concerned not only for the world as a ...
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A monadology is a metaphysical system that interprets the world as a harmonious unity encompassing a plurality of such self-determining simple entities. The term was first used in the early eighteenth century of the metaphysics of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In its modern meaning since Leibniz, a monad is held to be (1) a simple, irreducible ...
