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Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Origins of Monads

Monads are indivisibly simple, they must have all existed out of God's will from the beginning of time. Anything that is an organized organic whole, like a plant or whatever has a monad associated with it. So you could have a particular thing that you're looking at could have infinitely or a lot, not infinitely, but a lot of monads attached to it. All matter for lightness is organic. If you looked closely enough, if you had a good enough microscope, you would see that there are animals everywhere.

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