How vs. Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing

The answer that Leibniz offers to his question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?, is How, not Why, i. e. it connotes Efficient, rather than Teleological, Causality.  For, he posits the existence of a deity who sets creation in motion, without addressing the chronic Theological problem of a lack of a purpose for a purportedly perfect, self-sufficient entity to do so.  In contrast, a Species can have good reason to generate individuals--insofar as its guiding principle is a Will to Grow, which entails Diversification, a principle that is unattributable to the deity of Leibniz' Theological tradition.  Accordingly, the Unity that underlies the concepts of Perspectivism and interconnectedness in the Monadology is better grounded in a Vitalist adaptation of that system.