PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Supervenience, Reductionism, Atomism
9 Apr 2015
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Ontology: created substances, they genuine unities, they are genuinely active and causally self-sufficient, they express the entire universe (and this reflect the divine perfection of omniscience) In all theses ways substances reflect god: leibniz abandons the aristotelian ontology of corporeal substances, the doctrine of monads is a form of idealism, appearance vs. Reality: emphasis on the fact that appearance are misleading, physical world is deprived of sensory qualities, monad = a simple immaterial, soul like, substance endowed with perception and. Monads appetition: unity, appetition = the endeavor or striving in a monad by virtue of which it passes from one perceptual state to its successor. Appetition explains the dynamicity of monads: atomism: monads are the true atoms of nature, since monad cannot divisible --> monads cannot be like atoms, monads qua simple are without parts. Identity of indiscernible: leibniz law: the notion of point of view allows leibniz to accept the principle of the identity of.
