Discourse on Metaphysics
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Appears in 8 ideas
Metaphysics
- BeingWhat does it mean for something to be, and what is most real?
- FormWhat makes a thing the kind of thing it is: an intelligible pattern, an indwelling principle, or a structure imposed by the mind?
- One and ManyIs reality ultimately one or many, and how do unity and plurality hang together?
- Necessity and ContingencyMust whatever is be as it is, or could things be otherwise?
- AngelAre there pure intelligences, bodiless minds between God and man, and what would their existence mean for the order of being?
- RelationDo things exist in themselves, or only in their connections to other things?
- Same and OtherWhat makes things the same, and what makes them different?
- QuantityIs quantity the measure of reality, and how does the quantitative differ from the qualitative?