Monads Have NO Windows?! Leibniz, God, and the “Best Possible World” (41 min) | Philosophy Podcast

🎧 Monads have no windows. Nothing “gets in.” Nothing “gets out.”
So how can a world like ours—full of interaction, causation, and shared reality—exist at all?

In this 41-minute episode, we unpack Leibniz’s Monadology and the explosive chain of ideas it triggers: simple substances (monads), pre-established harmony, God, and the claim that this is the “best of all possible worlds.”

This isn’t just a metaphysical curiosity. It’s Leibniz’s attempt to explain how reality can be intelligible, ordered, and meaningful—without reducing everything to brute mechanism.

🚩 In this episode:

what a monad is (and why it has “no windows”)

perception & appetite: how monads “move” from the inside

pre-established harmony: why the world “matches up” without direct causal exchange

why Leibniz says this is the best possible world—and what that really means

where God fits into the system (and why this becomes a theodicy problem)

✦ Core idea: Leibniz isn’t selling a comforting slogan—he’s proposing a hard, systematic answer to a brutal question: how can the world make sense at all?

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💬 Question for you: is “the best possible world” a serious argument—or a provocation you can’t forgive?

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