PHIL 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Scholasticism, Monadology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2160
• Professor: Patricia Sheridan

Document Summary

Also a rationalist ultimate understanding of reality found in absent concepts, not sensation. Discourse on metaphysics" theological metaphysics, harmony and order of the universe. This is a big picture" account of harmony and goodness. I discovered aristotle as a lad, and even the scholastics did not repel me. Reviving forms: extension is not enough to explain the nature of bodies, reviving soul, or form, form gives matter its unique character. He is greater than infinity: what he wills comes into being, wisdom and moral perfection go hand in hand for leibniz. But what about all evil and suffering: to say the universe could have been better? (section 3, this is based on an inadequate understanding of general harmony of the universe, and of. God"s end game: god"s great trade-off. Substances: starting section 8, to distinguish god"s from gods" creatures explain notion individual substances, this is where the logic of predication comes in.