Discourse on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1902)
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- APAGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (n.d.). Discourse on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1902). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/leibniz/discourse-on-metaphysics-correspondence-with-arnauld-and-monadology-1902
- MLAGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Discourse on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1902). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/leibniz/discourse-on-metaphysics-correspondence-with-arnauld-and-monadology-1902.
- ChicagoGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Discourse on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1902). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/leibniz/discourse-on-metaphysics-correspondence-with-arnauld-and-monadology-1902.
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De què tracta
Tres peces breus que contenen tota la filosofia de Leibniz: el «Discurs de metafisica», la correspondencia amb Arnauld que en va sortir, i la «Monadologia».
Context i història
El «Discurs», del 1686, el va escriure per resumir-se a si mateix i el va enviar a Arnauld perque l'hi discutis; la correspondencia que en va seguir es on Leibniz s'explica millor, perque algu intel·ligent li anava trobant els punts febles. La «Monadologia», del 1714, son noranta paragrafs numerats que exposen el sistema sencer en poques pagines: el mon esta fet de monades, substancies simples sense finestres que no interactuen sino que estan coordinades des del principi per una harmonia preestablerta. Aquest volum es la millor manera d'entrar-hi: Leibniz no va escriure mai una obra magna, i el seu pensament esta escampat en cartes, articles i esbossos. Amb aixo n'hi ha prou per veure'n la forma.
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stance’’ and if there is no other principle of identity in bodies than that which has just been referred to a body would not subsist more than for a moment. The souls and the substance-forms of other bodies are entirely different from intelligent souls which alone know their actions, and not only do not perish through natural means but indeed always retain the knowledge of what they are; a fact which makes them alone open to chastisement or recompense, and makes them citizens of the republic of the uni- verse whose monarch is God. Henceit follows that all the other creatures should serve them, a point which we shall discuss more amply later. XIII. As the individual concept of each person includes once for all everything which can ever happen to him, in it can be seen, a prioré the evidences or the reasons for the reality of each event, and why one happened sooner than the other. But these events, however certain, are nevertheless contingent, being based on the free choice of God and of his creatures. It is true that their choices always have their reasons, but they incline to the choices under no compulsion of necessity. But before going further it is necessary to meet a difficulty which may arise regarding the principles which we have set forth in the preceding. We have said that the concept of an individual substance includes once for all everything which can ever hap- pen to it and that in considering this concept one will be able to see everything which can truly be said concerning the individual, just as we are able to see in the nature of a circle all the properties which 20 LEIBNIZ.