单子论

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单子论

1714 · 作者：戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨

世界是由无窗的单子在前定和谐中构成的。

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简介

A summary of Leibniz’s metaphysics in 90 short paragraphs, written in French in Vienna in 1714 without a title. It first appeared in a German translation in 1720 (“Monadologie” comes from this edition) and in Latin in 1721; the French original was printed only in 1840. In the same year Leibniz wrote a related text, the “Principles of Nature and Grace”, for Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Monadology describes simple substances that have perception and appetite but no parts and no “windows”. A famous paragraph imagines walking into a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill: one would find only parts pushing one another, never a perception.