Concept
Monadology
Overview
1714 essay by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Namely all apparent relations are to be resolvable into the concurrent existence of substances with contrasted attributes. It is fairly obvious that the Leibnizian monadology is the necessary outcome of any such philosophy. If you dislike pluralism, there will be only one monad. Other schools of philosophy admit relations but obstinately refuse to contemplate relations with more than two relata.
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
States what Monadology is; names Monadology.
We look here only to the necessity of the connection of events in a time-series as it is developed according to the physical law, whether the subject in which this development takes place is called automaton materiale when the mechanical being is moved by matter, or with Leibnitz spirituale when it is impelled by ideas; and if the freedom of our will were no other than the latter (say the psychological and…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
States what Monadology is; the author is tied to Monadology in the knowledge graph.
And as I wish to prove the existence of simple substances, only in relation to, and as the elements of, the composite, I might term the antithesis of the second Antinomy, transcendental Atomistic. But as this word has long been employed to designate a particular theory of corporeal phenomena (moleculae), and thus presupposes a basis of empirical conceptions, I prefer calling it the dialectical principle of…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Philosophers who discussed Monadology
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Immanuel Kant
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Hermann Lotze
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Baruch Spinoza
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Michel Serres
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte
- Thomas Davidson (philosopher)
- Nikolay Lossky
Related ideas
- Mind–body problem
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Giordano Bruno
- Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Monism
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Potentiality and actuality
- Substance theory
- Occasionalism
- Vienna
- Panpsychism
- Monad (philosophy)
- Théodicée
Place in the tradition
Part of Confucianism.