Saturday, November 18, 2017
Holism and Network
Thanks to Voltaire, the best-known example of Leibniz' compromising a Philosophical vision with Theological commitments is his application of Modal Logic to the existence of suffering, i. e. his Best of All Possible Worlds principle. A more detailed example of that compromise is his Monadology, in which he subordinates a Holist concept of human society to Atomist Psychology. That is, in order to preserve the separability of the Person-Soul from the Species, which is fundamental to the Theology of the Salvation of the Person-Soul, he relegates his vision of human society--a network of Perspectives--to mere Epiphenomenality. So, it is unclear whether he would be pleased by or chagrined by the actualization of that vision a few centuries later, i. e. the World Wide Web. Likewise, by the actualization of an Atomist antithesis in the guise of Capitalist Egoism.
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