ABSTRACT
Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz's full metaphysical system consists of only God and principles of bare individuation called "monads." It is a mathematically appealing system that prompted Alfred North Whitehead to modify it in his book Process and Reality, which stood as cornerstone of process philosophy and theology. It is laudable to wish to apply the geometrical method to metaphysical matters, but we must admit that until now it has rarely been done with success. As everything in geometry can be explained by calculation with numbers and by an analysis of the spatial situation-although certain problems are more easily solved by the first of these two methods and others by the second-in the same way author find there are diverse ways of considering phenomena. Everything can be explained by efficient and final causes, but whatever concerns reasonable substances is more naturally explained by the consideration of ends, whereas other substances are better explained by efficient causes.
