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Full Idea
The passions of monads reside in their confused perceptions.
Gist of Idea
Passions reside in confused perceptions
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Remond de Montmort [1715], 1715)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.189
A Reaction
He thinks perceptions come in degrees of confusion, all the way up to God, who alone has fully clear perceptions. He blames it on these confused perceptions.
19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |
12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |