Monadology
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780822954491 (0822954494)
Publish date: September 26th 1991
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
So that's what monads are! Leibniz is one of the best thinkers I have ever come across and he's a very clear writer. This book makes me think of the line, "besides that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play". Because, if you can get past the "best possible of all worlds", the necessary and absol...
I don't buy Leibniz's brand of occasionalism, philosophical optimism, or even his assuredness that there is an infinite, necessarily existing simple substance he calls 'God.' But I found his arguments to be, for the most part, cogent, and his no nonsense, nearly mathematical form of composition to e...