PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Potentiality And Actuality
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Monads and their bodies (pan-organicism) : as we have seen, bodies are created by the mind and collections of monads. So monads play a partial constitutive role in bodies: also, all monads have bodies. Leibniz says it is by representing what is going on it a monad"s own body that it represents everything else. For a mind, the body is a human. For an animal soul, the body is an animal. Bare monads also have bodies: so, all monads function somewhat like souls. But leibniz doesn"t mean exactly the same thing as aristotle, because the monad can have no causal relation to a body. Therefore, for leibniz, a monad cannot give life to a body. i. Now, since each monad has a body, each body is composed of an infinite number of bodies. Then, somewhere in your ashes exists your soul: so you always have a body, summary:
