La monadologie (1909) by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"La monadologie (1909)" by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is a philosophical text written in 1714. In roughly ninety paragraphs, Leibniz presents his metaphysics of simple substances called monads. These indivisible elements form a hierarchy of perfection, from basic monads to souls to rational spirits. Each monad expresses the universe from its unique perspective, coordinated through God's pre-established harmony. Without direct interaction, these substances appear synchronized like clocks set to the same time, forming Leibniz's solution to fundamental questions about reality and existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
Annotator Piat, Clodius, 1854-1918
Title La monadologie (1909)
avec étude et notes de Clodius Piat
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology
Credits Produced by Zoran Stefanovic, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language French
LoC Class B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject Philosophy
Subject Monadology
Category Text
eBook-No. 17641
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