Exposition, Morality, and Transcendence

Perhaps the most typical and graphic concept of the Self in the Philosophical tradition is Leibniz' 'Monad'. He characterizes a Monad as 'windowless' because a Monad has no interaction with other Monads. Instead, a condition of pre-established harmony amongst Monads is the case in the Leibnizian universe, regarding which, each Monad can grasp via Reason. However, the image of 'window' distracts from the absence of any refernce to 'door' in the metaphor. The windowless Monad is a Propriative notion--Propriation seeks enclosure, and privacy. But in the Formaterial Individual, Propriation combines with Exposition, the latter being the Principle of risk and publicity. That the Individual fundamentally seeks both closure and novelty seems rarely accommodated in orthodox Psychological theories, despite being obvious in everyday experience. Exposition, which seeks to exit from the circumscription of Propriation, is the Principle of sociability and transcendence. In other words, the differences between the Spaces of Locomotility, of Morality, and of Transcendence, are ones of degree, not kind.