Monadology
Sign in to savethumb|Monadology The Monadology (, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works of his later philosophy. It is a short text which presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.
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- Lloyd Strickland
- First published
- 2014
- Editions
- 4
- Subjects
- Philosophy, german, Monadology, Early works to 1800
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- monad
- Genre
- essay
- Main subject
- monad
- Dedicated to
- Eugene of Savoy
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- title
- La Monadologie
- Commons category
- Monadology
- publication date
- 1720-00-00
- language of work or name
- French
- copyright status
- public domain
- first line
- La Monade, dont nous parlerons ici, n’est autre chose, qu’une substance simple, qui entre dans les composés ; simple, c’est‐à‐dire, sans parties.
- subtitle
- Principia philosophiæ seu theses in gratiam principis Eugenii conscriptæ
- last line
- C’est ce qui fait travailler les personnes sages et vertueuses à tout ce qui paraît conforme à la volonté divine présomptive, ou antécédente : et se contenter cependant de ce que Dieu fait arriver effectivement par sa volonté secrète, conséquente et décisive ; en reconnaissant que si nous pouvions entendre assez l’ordre de l’univers, nous trouverions qu’il surpasse tous les souhaits des plus sages, et qu’il est impossible de le rendre meilleur qu’il est ; non seulement pour le tout en général, mais encore pour nous-mêmes en particulier, si nous sommes attachés, comme il faut à l’Auteur du tout, non seulement comme à l’Architecte et à la cause efficiente de notre être, mais encore comme à notre Maître et à la cause finale qui doit faire tout le but de notre volonté, et peut seul faire notre bonheur.
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8 sectionsContents
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- Metaphysics
- Context
- Summary
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|Monadology The Monadology (, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works of his later philosophy. It is a short text which presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.
== Text == thumb|The first manuscript page of the Monadology During his last stay in Vienna from 1712 to September 1714, Leibniz wrote two short texts in French which were meant as concise expositions of his philosophy. After his death, Principes de la nature et de la grâce fondés en raison, which was intended for prince Eugene of Savoy, appeared in French in the Netherlands. Christian Wolff and collaborators published translations in German and Latin of the second text which came to be known as The Monadology. Without having seen the Dutch publication of the Principes they had assumed that it was the French original of the Monadology, which in fact remained unpublished until 1840.
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