
Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Different Types of Perception
There's no such thing as a complete absence of perception. If you're going to talk about unconscious perceptions in a way that we, as readers, understand, we have to think about something with a mind that is at least a little bit like ours. So I might see something, but I don't really notice it. But then you ask me, oh, did you see that thing? Oh, OK, I guess I did. It could be in our heads or not in our head, of something that is not apparently the monad itself. And take, for instance, his explanation of death, the monad that is your rational soul could become themonad that is the piece
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