Monadology
Author: first_name: Gottfried Wilhelm
last_name: Leibniz
Language: English
Year: 1898

<em>The Monadology</em> (<em>La Monadologie</em>, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. What he proposed can be seen as a modification of occasionalism developed by latter-day Cartesians. Leibniz surmised that there are indefinitely many substances individually 'programmed' to act in a predetermined way, each program being coordinated with all t