Leibniz Monadology Part 2

The second part of a video introduction into the monadology - an ontology of Leibniz. Leibniz was a German universal scholar who has written on several topics two of them being theological and metaphysics.

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• Leibniz
• Monad
• philosophy
• soul
• perception
• apperception
• metaphysics
• esoteric

[vaguelyhumanoid]

If the monads don't interact, how do they form compounds?

[nochnenusername]

@vaguelyhumanoid: Sorry for the late answer. Probably somehow by "reflection" within each other and a prestabilized harmony the creator establishes for their best of all worlds. Leibniz would probably support the notion that Monads are structurally coupled, but do not interact in a way that action 2 in Monad 1 follows action 1 in Monad 2. Their action happens at the same time as action and could be interpreted by an observer as interaction. (If Monads would be observable at all!)

[nochnenusername]

monadology is an ontology which is not based on material parts - that is interesting - and suitable for anybody who wants to work on a reasonable ontology which is not based on axioms which preempt a material world.

monadology is somehow a forerunner to "laws of form"-ideas. I did not understand the "laws of form" good enough but I have a felling that reading "laws of form" and "monadology" together might be fruitfull.

It is somehow also about "You can't get there from here" ...

[nochnenusername]

... but L. would probably say "It is all here. But the distinction between here and there is a necessary one to cope with our lack of perception."

Materiality is preempting distinction between here and there (inside/outside) and L. probably conceived that any "true" answer to being should not start with this preemption.

[AnnaAgainstAtheists]

Excellent. Thanks, and 5 stars.

[tromba8]

nice video!!

[nochnenusername]

Considering human freedom - L. believed in it.

He positioned himself considering this question somewhere inbetween the traditional scholastic schools of the Dominicans (Aquinas) and Jesuits (Luis de Molina).

[nochnenusername]

... aspect in his metaphysic. Every monad is definitely dependent on all the others but also independent. Lets call it interdependent. The grade of dependence and independence had to do for L. with a hierarchical order between the monads - which was (that is a critique of a lot of philosophers) predetermined by God.

[nochnenusername]

imo it is more a thing of perception. a monad is a percepting and effecting (apercepting) "something" without extension.

matter for L. seems to be the result of lacking ability of perception - ?!? - obviously a metaphysical position.

I agree with your comment on L. being against matter as the constitution of reality but imo electrically charged points are the wrong metaphor for monads.

Your last sentence woould be for L. unacceptable - the prestabilized harmony was a very important ...

[loregazer]

there is a serious pre-emption problem that needs to be addressed in order to motivate the monadology. What does the positing of spiritual atoms do by way of explanation that our typical scientific causal explanation cannot explain? We can explain change of material bodies in terms of change of material parts so on down to the quantum level where there is still extension...perhaps these monads explain consciousness since that is without extension?