Epilogue: Is a Leibnizian Metaphysics Still Possible Today?

Abstract

‘To be reasonably successful as a philosopher’ – Whitehead wrote in a retrospective assessment of Process and Reality – ‘is to provide a new platform; perhaps not a completely new platform, but a slight alteration of some older platform from which it is worthwhile to make criticisms.’¹ According to the perspective adopted in the present work, Whitehead took Leibniz’s theory of monads as his starting point. The question now is whether his own alteration of that older platform is still worthy of consideration.