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Saturday, October 17, 2015

SUMMARY UNDERSTANDING OF LEIBNIZ'S MONADOLOGY


Logic (which Leibniz calls reasonable things, but which I call systems), is infallible so far
as it truly demonstrates logic. Facts, on the other hand, are irreducible only becuase there
is an infinite conitngency extending from it to other facts. Where logic is contingent, it
is not perfect. Where facts relate to logic, they are provable, but only because their parts
may be understood to be reducible. In a sense, because their parts are infinite.

If everything is perfect, then if there is an experience of everything, it may be called
God and it exists.

There is relatively little difference between God and the imitations of God, because so far
as lesser things go, greater things are the closest thing to becoming God. In this way, lesser
things can be greater things by providing a path for the simpler constitutions.

Beings act in pleasure-modules, so that the imperfect identity is a realization about the
ultimate purpose of the module, seen as it were, objectively. Thus, in terms of causes,
there is nothing undesirable that does not serve some efficient purpose.

Besides this,

He places limitations and appears to assume that power is only one thing.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Mostly Cut from a Paper on Enlightenment Philosophy...


An important distinction arises in the discussion of exceptional applications, namely, the distinction between creative and ethical acts. The distinction is that one (creativity) has a material impetus, while ethics has an abstract impetus. If we accept this distinction, we can observe that ethical problems emerge because of material solutions, and creative problems emerge because of abstract problems. In this way, ethics and creativity are as diametrically opposed (and paradoxically, just as related) as the material and the abstract, and just as diametrically opposed and as related as problems and solutions. If the terms ‘ethical’ and ‘creative’ are exclusive in the same manner as the material and the abstract, which is in turn exclusive in the same manner as a problem and a solution, then the conclusion is that (speaking coherently), every problem has a pragmatic solution, so therefore, everything ethical has a solution in creative practicality, and everything creative has a solution in practical ethics.