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Yakovlev V.A. The informative and conceptual creative approaches of G.W. Leibniz's Monadology

Abstract: The subject of this research is the G. W. Leibniz’s doctrine about the monads. The work reconstructs the main informative and conceptual creative approaches of the doctrine from the perspective of their importance for the modern philosophy and science. As the key conceptual elements, the author analyzes and uses the new linguistic forms: “metaphysical creative inputs”, “research metaphysical programs”, “creative approaches of metaphysics”. The creative inputs of metaphysics can be followed in methodological, ontological, gnoseological, and axiological aspects. It is underlined and these creative inputs as the fundamental information principles are ultimate and antecedent with regards to all other principles of the spiritual, theoretical, and practical activity. The author uses the new method of hermeneutic dialectics that allows determining the historical importance of Leibniz’s doctrine about the monads, as well as the logical connection of his ideas with the modern theories in cosmology. The scientific novelty lies in the fact, that in his doctrine Leibniz reveals and reconstructs the new essential creative inputs – substantial pluralism, discretization of the infinite continuum of the universe, its hierarchical organization and animateness of each element, as well as the principles of general distinction and identification of things. It is demonstrated that the contemporary cosmologists, promoting the anthropic principle (in a strong or weak version), in essence reformulate Leibniz’s creative approach about the nothing and something – why this particular world exists, which we observe and study.  


Keywords:

opposition, dialectics, theodicy, monad, rationalism, method, programs, metaphysics, hermeneutics, creative inputs


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