PHL210Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethics
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There is a distinction between confused perception and distinct perception. Leibniz uses the distinction between confused and distinct perceptions to tackle the issue of one"s lack of awareness of what is happening around them. Whatever change in a monad has to come from inside following from the internal principle . In order to understand change in a monad, one has to understand how perception changes. Leibniz thinks a monad has this desire to be in a certain state. All monads are finite and hence they cannot always get what they want. A monad may want an entirely new state but in reality, some of it just changes and the rest stays the same. Aggregates are things that do not have unity. The law of continuity talks about how change takes place. One has to pass through all the intermediate stages. There are no such things as disembodied monads. Leibniz thinks one can"t find unity if one sticks to matter alone.
