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G.W. Leibniz's Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy and one of its most puzzling productions. Because the essay is written in so condensed and compact a fashion, for almost three centuries it has baffled and beguiled those who read it for the first time. Nicholas Rescher accompanies the text of the Monadology section-by-section with relevant excerpts from some of Leibniz's widely scattered discussions of show more the matters at issue. The result serves a dual purpose of providing a commentary of the Monadology. show less

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Monada nuk është veçse një substancë e thjeshtë e cila bën pjesë tek përbërjet. Me termin " e thjeshtë" do të kuptojmë "jo e përbërë".
Bompiani propone I principi razionali della natura e della grazia, che successivamente Leibniz ha sintetizzato ulteriormente nella monadologia, con una edizione curata con cura da Salvatore Cariati. Leibniz è stato un filosofo di caratura mondiale caratterizzato dalla capacità di unire il pensiero filosofico con l’approccio empirico garantito dalla matematica, tipico della fine del seicento, periodo che, non a caso, ha gettato le basi dell’illuminismo. Le monadi sono degli originali che si compongono in enti complessi dando forma alle cose; ma non sono gli atomi di Democrito, in quanto hanno una dimensione ulteriore rispetto a quella puramente fisica, dell’essere, che è quella della appetizione, della percezione e della show more memoria. La monade originaria, da cui tutto nasce, è la matrice del mondo e della natura; ed è Dio. E anche la dimostrazione dell’esistenza di Dio, garantita dal principio di ragion sufficiente, per cui tutto ciò che è possibile e la cui esistenza non crea contraddizioni è, nasce da un approccio filosofico originale, anche per il periodo. Nell’ultima parte del libro viene proposta copia dell’edizione originale della monadologia proposta da Heinrich Kohlern che, tra l’altro, diede il titolo all’opera del filosofo tedesco. Salvatore Cariati riesce con abilità ed intelligenza ad aiutare il lettore anche meno attrezzato, come me, ad entrare nel mondo di Leibniz; un mondo non semplice ma che merita attenzione e tempo. show less
MONADOLOGIA

La Monadología, escrita por Leibniz en 1714, dos años antes de su
muerte, y siendo la obra más célebre de este autor, constituye su
sistema metafísico maduro y más depurado. Esta contiene, en apretada
síntesis, toda su filosofía. Por la riqueza de ideas y por la peculiar
trabazón entre ellas, la Monadología no resulta un texto fácil; requiere
un lector «instruido» en filosofía griega, escolástica y moderna. Pero su
valor perenne como obra clásica en todos los ámbitos filosóficos
recompensa el esfuerzo necesario para adentrarnos en su majestuosa
arquitectura. La Monadología es una de esas obras que no han dejado de
alimentar generaciones de pensadores y que con el paso del tiempo,
lejos de perder interés, presentan show more nuevas perspectivas de las cuestiones
filosóficas emergentes.

JULIÁN VELARDE LOMBRANA (Avellanedo, Cantabria, 1945) es
catedrático de Filosofía en la Universidad de Oviedo. Ha traducido
obras de Platón, Aristóteles, Caramuel, Leibniz y Peano. Entre sus
publicaciones destacan Historia de la lógica (1989); Juan Caramuel: vida y
obra (1989); Conocimiento y verdad (1993); El agnosticismo (1996); El
español en los proyectos de lengua universal (2000). Actualmente trabaja en
las líneas de investigación de la epistemología y de los sistemas difusos.
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La Monadologie est une œuvre de Leibniz, écrite en français en 1714 et publiée seulement en 1840[1]. L'auteur y donne une vue d'ensemble de son système. Composée de 90 paragraphes, elle est un exposé de ses thèses fondamentales. Le titre n'est pas de Leibniz lui-même mais a été introduit par Heinrich Köhler dans sa traduction allemande de l'opuscule encore inédit (1720) [2]. Elle peut être divisée en trois parties :
* § 1 à 36 : les « monades », (les éléments du monde) ; §32: principe de raison suffisante
* § 37 à 48 : Dieu (la cause du monde) ;
* § 49 à 90 : le monde créé (le monde lui-même, et son unité).
Le style serré de la Monadologie exprime mieux que nul autre le caractère si prenant de fiction show more métaphysique – d'aucuns ont pu dire : de poème – qu'a la philosophie de Leibniz. Sous la forme systématique que lui donnera Wolff, cette dernière est apparue à Kant comme le type même du « dogmatisme », c'est-à-dire une pensée exclusivement déductive et logique. Sous la forme « populaire » de la Théodicée, elle s'attirera les sarcasmes d'un Voltaire. Profondément religieuse, elle pourrait être qualifiée, au moins autant que celle de Malebranche que l'on a ainsi définie, de rationalisme mystique. Avec l'occasionnalisme malebranchiste, avec le monisme de Spinoza (théorie de l'expression), elle constitue l'une des grandes options visant à surmonter le dualisme hérité de Descartes. show less

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the last real polymaths, was born in Leipzig. Educated there and at the Universities at Jena and Altdorf, he then served as a diplomat for the Elector of Mainz and was sent to Paris, where he lived for a few years and came into contact with leading scientists, philosophers, and theologians. During a trip to show more England, he was elected to the Royal Society; he made a visit to Holland to meet Spinoza. Back in Germany he became librarian to the Duke of Brunswick, whose library was the largest in Europe outside the Vatican. From there he became involved in government affairs in Hanover and later settled in Berlin at the court of Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia. Leibniz was involved in the diplomatic negotiations that led to the Hanoverian succession to the English throne. From his university days he showed an interest in mathematics, logic, physics, law, linguistics, and history, as well as theology and practical political affairs. He discovered calculus independently of Newton and had a protracted squabble about which of them should be given credit for the achievement. The developer of much of what is now modern logic, he discovered some important physical laws and offered a physical theory that is close to some twentieth-century conceptions. Leibniz was interested in developing a universal language and tried to master the elements of all languages. Leibniz corresponded widely with scholars all over Europe and with some Jesuit missionaries in China. His philosophy was largely worked out in answer to those of other thinkers, such as Locke, Malebranche, Bayle, and Arnauld. Although he published comparatively little during his lifetime, Leibniz left an enormous mass of unpublished papers, drafts of works, and notes on topics of interest. His library, which has been preserved, contains annotations, analyses, and often refutations of works he read. The project of publishing all of his writings, undertaken in the 1920s by the Prussian Academy, was delayed by World War II but was resumed thereafter. It is not likely that the project will be completed in the twentieth century. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Monadology
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