Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Monad, Windowless, Mirror, Practice

As has been previously discussed, Perspectivism is distinguished from Subjectivism--while according to the former, one's World is "for me", according to the latter, it is "in me".  Accordingly, a concept of Practice, which entails that of the modification of one's World, and, hence, as has been previously discussed, that of a substratum of the modification, is possible in Perspectivism, but not in Subjectivism.  Now, two of Leibniz' best-known images--the Monad as "windowless", and the Monad as a "mirror" of the universe with which it is interconnected--seem, though he does not recognize the distinction, to exemplify Subjectivism and Perspectivism, respectively.  Thus, if the Monadology has, as has been previously proposed, application to Social theory, it can only be qua the Perspectivist interpretation of the Monad, i. e. the Monad as mirror.

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