The Gödelian Monadology (Part one)

Abstract

After the publication of his completeness theorems, two events of great significance occur in Kurt Gödel’s life: he falls into paranoid depression and engages himself in Leibniz’s monadologistic philosophy. As he declares in the 70th, some years before his death: "My theory is a monadology with a central monad (namely, God). It is like the monadology by Leibniz in its general structure." At the same time, the paranoiac Gödel is terrified by the skullduggery of Evil and he is forced to flee continuously before the Devil during all his life – inside Leibniz’s best of all possible monadic worlds. Exploring this high tension space, my essay puts some fundamental systemic questions to the leibnizian as well as to the gödelian monadology.