Hi Stephen P. King It's from
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/com/com_leib.html and was just the first link that came up in Google. Just Google on monad and a whole set of other links will pop up. Roger Clough, [email protected] 8/23/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 12:59:19 Subject: Re: NewsFlash: Monadic weather today will be cloudy withachanceofthunderstorms Hi Roger, What is this quote from? It is interesting! I don't quite agree with it, as the centers are not all that a monad must include for its definition... On 8/23/2012 10:29 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King " Leibniz propounds a pluralistic metaphysical idealism by reducing the reality of the universe to centres of force, which are all ultimately spiritual in their nature. Every centre of force is a substance, an individual, and is different from other centres of force. Such centres of force, Leibniz calls monads. These forces are unextended, not subject to division in space. None, excepting, of course, God, can destroy these monads, and so they are considered to be immortal in essence. Though quantitatively, the monads a.." Roger Clough, [email protected] 8/23/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." -- Onward! Stephen "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." ~ Francis Bacon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
