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Single Idea 19415

[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions ]

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 in on these confused perceptions.

The 4 ideas from 'Letters to Remond de Montmort'

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]