Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?

Summary: Have some tasty metaphysics, in mono!<br> Leibniz thinks that the world is ultimately made up of monads, which are like atoms except nothing at all like atoms, because they're alive, and mindful, and eternal, and windowless, placed in the best kind of harmony at the beginning of time by God. Is there a concept album in all of this?<br> Plus, does reading philosophy make you a better conversationalist, or just get you ostracized?<br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1477604707/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1477604707&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparexalif-20" target="_blank">Buy the book</a> or <a href="http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/GMR/hmp/texts/modern/leibniz/monadology/monadology.html" target="_blank">read it free online.</a><br> End song: The soothing "Healthy Song" by <a href="http://marklint.com/maytrick.html">The MayTricks</a>, from the 1994 album Happy Songs Will Bring You Down.<br>