Principes de la nature et de la grâce fondés en raison: Principes de la philosophie, ou, Monadologie (Épiméthée)
Format: paper
ISBN:
9782130394051 (2130394051)
Publish date: March 1st 2001
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
Pages no: 146
Edition language: French
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...