The Concept of Organic Monad
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me3.79Keywords:
organic monad, organic substance, principle of plenitude, principle of identity, epigenetics, preformation, LeibnizAbstract
The main objective of this study is to develop a concept of organic monad from certain elements of the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Leibniz. With this development, I do not intend to offer a new interpretation of Leibniz’s philosophy, but to determine a concept that integrates what might be termed as monadological general model, whose conceptual and historical validity goes beyond the framework of this philosophy. I will begin my argument holding that in Leibniz’s metaphysics of substance plurality has some precedence over simplicity. This is done by associating the concepts of plenitude substantial simplicity, indicating that from this articulation emerges a concept of plenum as an universal heterogeneous aggregate of bodies in which organicity is more fundamental than materiality. In the second section of the article, I will give this plenum the metaphysical status of compound substance, articulating two senses of life, simple and compound. The bodies substantially founded exhibit an appetition that is characteristic of a compound life that reflects their unity as organism. From there, I will, in the third section, go from a composite substantiality in general to an organic specific substantiality, through the determination of the concept of polar organism. I intend that this concept make a synthesis of genetic and physiological aspects of the organism, able to determine, finally, the concept of organic monad as a result of the association between a metaphysics underlying a dynamic conservation of the organic and other underlying a plurality of organic temporal transformation.
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