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  • Entelechies, for they have in them a certain perfection (echousi to enteles); they have a certain self-sufficiency (autarkeia) which makes them the sources of their internal activities and, so to speak, incorporeal automata.

    The Monadology 2004

  • 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.

    The Monadology 2004

  • [esprits] alone are Monads, and that there are no souls of animals nor other Entelechies.

    The Monadology 2004

  • Entelechies are programs of the self-organization and sustenance of things ” in Aristotle's words, a dynamis put en ergon or put in action; i.e. energeia.

    Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

  • But in God these attributes are absolutely infinite or perfect; and in the created Monads or the Entelechies (or perfectihabiae, as Hermolaus

    The Monadology 2004

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