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Då försöker vi igen. Absolutely first truth are, among truths of reason, those which are identical, and among truths of fact this, from which all experiences can be demonstrated a priori, namely: everything possible demands existence, and hence will exist unless something else prevents it, which also demands existence and is incompatible with the former.

rather of the
positive with the privative, for the privative is nothing other than limits,
and there are limits everywhere in a creature, just as there are points
everywhere in the line.

As all minds are unities, it can be said that God is the primitive unity,
expressed by all the others according to their capacity. His goodness moved
him to act, and there are in him three primacies: power, knowledge and
will; the result of these is the operation or creature, which is varied
according to the different combinations of unity and zero; or

Metaphysics.

Elsewhere Leibniz expressed his approval of the Augustinian dictum that 'God would not permit evil unless he could procure a greater good from evil' (p. 197). According to Leibniz, then, evil is prerequisite for a greater good; without the evil, the quantity of good it occasions could not otherwise be realized.

Leibniz identified three degrees of right or justice: 'strict right in commutative justice, equity (or charity in the narrower sense of the term) in distributive justice, and finally piety (or probity) in universal justice', and from these were derived the three principles of Roman law: 'to injure no one, to give to each his due, and to live honourably (or rather piously)'

Leibniz dagar libertariansk fri vilja norm, därav kritiken mot honom som determinist.

monaden med en fullständig spegelbild av världen i sig.

Substans enhet --> omöjligt med fysisk ursubstans, eftersom den delas i sig själv. --> Metafysisk substans.

Substans som ren form i den sene Leibniz

Arguably, the doctrine for which Leibniz is today most famous (or infamous) is that of optimism, that is, his claim that the existing world is the best of all possible worlds. For Leibniz, a possible thing was one that did not imply a contradiction, and much like contemporary modal logicians he envisaged all the things that satisfied this definition as forming different
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