Monadology
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Appears in 12 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?
- EternityIs eternity merely time without end, or a wholly different mode of being, existence outside time altogether?
- InfinityWhat does it mean to be without limit, and can the infinite exist in being, in quantity, or in the world?
- 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?
- SpaceIs space a thing in itself, a property of bodies, or a form of the mind?
- OppositionHow do things stand opposed, and what is the role of opposition in being and thought?
- 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?