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W.D. Clarke
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Well, Johnny, it's really quite simple. A corporeal substance is constituted by an infinite aggregate of monads (secondary matter), unified by a dominant monad fulfilling the role of substantial form. Each monad of the aggregate which constitutes the organic body of the dominant monad, however, is in turn the dominant monad of an organic body, and so on to infinity! Got that?
— Feb 21, 2021 09:37AM
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W.D. Clarke
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In brief, happiness is the lasting pleasure of the mind grasping the intelligible order of reality. The tension between, on the one hand, metaphysical perfection, and on the other hand, the happiness of rational beings as (apparently competing) aims of creation, is resolved in a system in which the rational apprehension of metaphysical perfection is identified with happiness...
— Feb 15, 2021 05:54PM
In brief, happiness is the lasting pleasure of the mind grasping the intelligible order of reality. The tension between, on the one hand, metaphysical perfection, and on the other hand, the happiness of rational beings as (apparently competing) aims of creation, is resolved in a system in which the rational apprehension of metaphysical perfection is identified with happiness...
W.D. Clarke
is on page 35 of 160
From very early on, Leibniz nurtured the dream of developing an alphabet of human thoughts leading to the creation of a characteristica universalis, that is, a universal system of signs designed to eliminate the ambiguity of natural language.
Doubleplusgood!!
— Feb 04, 2021 06:07PM
Doubleplusgood!!
Johnny - "No sweat, teach. Have you gotten up to the gonad part yet?"