Concept
Monad (philosophy)
Overview
philosophical concept
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They are substantial, for they are independent unities; they are forms, because the term "form" expresses, in Aristotelian phraseology, the type or law of some class of phenomena. The monad is an individual, but its whole content, its objectivity or reality, is the summation of the universe which it represents. It is individual, but whatever marks it as actual is some reproduction of the world.
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Names Monad several times; states what Monad is.
He also extended to his many substances the belief in parallelism which had existed for the two substances of the Cartesians. He called his substances “monads”, and maintained that every monad mirrors the universe, and develops along lines which correspond, point by point, with those along which every other monad is developing. A man’s soul or mind is a single monad, while his body is a collection of monads, each…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
Names Monad several times; states what Monad is.
P. 334, § 194. Leibniz: for a brief account of the Monads see Caird's _Crit. Philosophy of J. Kant,_ i. 86-95. A monad is the simple substance or indivisible unity corresponding to a body. It is as simple what the world is as a multiplicity: it 'represents,' _i.e._ concentrates into unity, the variety of phenomena: is the expression of the material in the immaterial, of the compound in the simple, of the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Monad is; names Monad several times.
Philosophers who discussed Monad (philosophy)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Syrianus
- The School of Athens
- Iamblichus
- Leon Chwistek
- Eudorus of Alexandria
- Branislav Petronijević
- Ionel Gherea
Related ideas
- Elementary particle
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Giordano Bruno
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Latin
- Geometry
- Monadology
- Number
- Paganism
- Neoplatonism
- Proclus
- Exegesis
- Sanskrit
- Christian theology
- Pythagoreanism
- Taoism
- Trinity
- Secularity
- Symbol
- Plotinus
- Enneads
- Entity
- Cosmogony
- Theosophy
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Confucianism.