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Monad, Latin for unit, comes from the Greek word monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), and may refer to:
- Monad, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
- Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
- Pythagoras, 582 BC–507 BC the father of numbers
- Plato, c. 427–c. 347 BC monad is the center of Parmenides, Timaeus tetralogies.
- Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC as the arche in his work Metaphysics.
- Parmenides, early 5th century BC pagan philosopher of monism and founder of School of Elea.
- Xenophanes, 570–480 BC Pagan philosopher was seen as the first monotheist.
- Plotinus, ca. 205AD–270AD Pagan philosopher of Neoplatonism.
- Epicurus, 341 BC-270 BC Pagan philosopher's theory of atoms as the monad.
- Monad (Gnosticism), in Gnosticism.
- Hermetica, The Cup or Monad **Hermetica, The Cup or Monad
- Gottfried Leibniz views monads in his Monadology as atomistic mental objects which experience the world from a particular point of view + **Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
- Immanuel Kant expressed in the dichotomy of noumena and phenomena (see Numinous) and the a posteriori, a priori and his book Physical Monadology (1756).
Other uses of Monad include:
- Non-standard analysis, a field in which a monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number
- Monad (category theory), a type of functor
- Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
- Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the Technocratic movement).
- Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".
- Hermetica, The Cup or Monad
References
- Hemenway, Priya (2005). Divine Proportion. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing. ISBN 1-4027-3522-7
See also
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