Author Archives: Pierre Beaudry

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Monadology is not an introduction to his philosophy; it is rather a conclusive epistemological assertion of the political maturity of his time, the highest expression of Leibniz’s own optimism about the human mind created in the Image of God.

Monadology is the domain where optimism and optimization of increasing relative population density coincide in the creative process itself; that is, where human identity begins to emerge from national citizenry to become universal citizenry. However, the only way to capture the significance of such a strategic act of political maturity is to apply it to your own mind, performatively, for the benefit of the common purpose of mankind.

Let’s discuss Leibniz’s Monadology from the view of an axiomatic relationship between three different epistemological manifolds: the manifold of the Monad of natural Souls and of human Spirits, the manifold of the Divine Monad, and the manifold of the World Monad. From that vantage point, the Monadology is the elaboration of a Universal Noosphere-Biosphere-Geosphere multiply-connected manifold reflecting itself back into the domain of creativity in the Image of the Mind of God.

Here is a nice little construction for the ordering of prime numbers in tune with the doubling power of two of the well-tempered musical system.

When Leibniz discovered the principle of pre-established harmony behind even and odd numbers, that is, when he found the means of ordering congruence and reciprocity among all counting numbers from the vantage point of a higher unity of principle between power and reason, he had acquired one of the most powerful ways of dealing with conflicting oppositions in war as in peace ever devised by mankind.

What I intend to demonstrate, here, is that the reason behind the ordering of regular numbers reflects, infinitely, the process of reciprocity and congruence of doubly-connected circular action. It is as if God had created within them, and in the human mind, some pre-established cyclical harmonic order of continuity for the purpose of showing mankind how to progress from a lower to a higher manifold. Schiller articulated a similar process to access the principle of reciprocity.