In the quotes below, L refers to entelechies as souls. Only living being have souls of any type. From my own knoweledge of the history of philosophy the notion of entelechy seems similar to Schopenhauer's concept of WILL-- the "World as Will and Power "-- and -- Heaven forbid- Nietzsche's later concept of the Will to Power.
See also http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/leibniz/monadology.html "19. If we are to give the name of Soul to everything which has perceptions and desires [appetits] in the general sense which I have explained, then all simple substances or created Monads might be called souls; but as feeling [le sentiment] is something more than a bare perception, I think it right that the general name of Monads or Entelechies should suffice for simple substances which have perception only, and that the name of Souls should be given only to those in which perception is more distinct, and is accompanied by memory. " "But in God these attributes are absolutely infinite or perfect; and in the created Monads or the Entelechies (or perfectihabiae, as Hermolaus Barbarus translated the word) there are only imitations of these attributes, according to the degree of perfection of the Monad. (Theod. 87.)" "62. Thus, although each created Monad represents the whole universe, it represents more distinctly the body which specially pertains to it, and of which it is the entelechy;" "63. The body belonging to a Monad (which is its entelechy or its soul) constitutes along with the entelechy what may be called a living being, an..." 66. Whence it appears that in the smallest particle of matter there is a world of creatures, living beings, animals, entelechies, souls. See also http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/leibniz/monadology.html "19. If we are to give the name of Soul to everything which has perceptions and desires [appetits] in the general sense which I have explained, then all simple substances or created Monads might be called souls; but as feeling [le sentiment] is something more than a bare perception, I think it right that the general name of Monads or Entelechies should suffice for simple substances which have perception only, and that the name of Souls should be given only to those in which perception is more distinct, and is accompanied by memory. " "But in God these attributes are absolutely infinite or perfect; and in the created Monads or the Entelechies (or perfectihabiae, as Hermolaus Barbarus translated the word) there are only imitations of these attributes, according to the degree of perfection of the Monad. (Theod. 87.)" "62. Thus, although each created Monad represents the whole universe, it represents more distinctly the body which specially pertains to it, and of which it is the entelechy;" "63. The body belonging to a Monad (which is its entelechy or its soul) constitutes along with the entelechy what may be called a living being, an..." 66. Whence it appears that in the smallest particle of matter there is a world of creatures, living beings, animals, entelechies, souls. - Roger Clough Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 4/11/2013 http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
