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leibniz is such an interesting and contradictory guy. i've heard it said that schopenhauer is one of the first philosophers to engage seriously with eastern thought, but that's actually not true in leibniz' case, who loves him some confucius.

he's also a huge fan of enlightened absolutism - and who isn't a huge fan of enlightened absolutism? - and yet he falls out of love with Louis XIV:

>In 1683, Leibniz openly derided the Sun King in a scathing piece of political satire, Mars Christianissimus. Louis could have been one of “the delights of the human race,” he writes in that work; but instead he has become “the scourge of Europe.”

>Leibniz’s animus toward Louis XIV marks an interesting paradox in his political thought. In his theoretical writings, Leibniz champions the idea of a continent-wide Christian republic under a single monarch. Given that Louis XIV was a monarch whose ambition it was to unite Europe under a single church, one might well wonder why the philosopher found him to be such a scourge. It wasn’t just a matter of defending Germany from its most powerful neighbor, as it turns out; nor was Leibniz driven solely by the desire to install his employer on the throne of England. (Though he did advertise his willingness to move to London—rather too eagerly, in the view of his fellow courtiers—should the Hanoverians require his services there.) In fact, Leibniz viscerally opposed Louis XIV because he believed that the Sun King’s brand of absolute monarchy represented a form of secular decadence: a corruption in which both reason and religion were reduced to mere show of words in the service of a thoroughly irreligious, deceitful, and self-interested ruling elite.

>At last he reveals the thing that he fears most about Louis XIV: “The worst thing of all is that atheism walks today with its head up in France, that pretended great wits are in fashion there, and that piety is turned to ridicule.” The atheistic spirit of France, he thunders, is a “venom” that none can resist. Wherever the Sun King sets foot, the poison spreads. The toxin to which Leibniz refers here, of course, consists of modern, materialistic, and atheistic ideas—ideas to which he himself was exposed during his years in Paris.

also, but unrelated subject, all of this reading of 40K stuff has now put in my head the idea of Memehammer 40k: In the Darkness of The Near Future There Are Only Microaggressions.
>ywn field a 2000 pt army of landian accelerationists against rival and competing factions of intersectional feminists, alt-rightists, kekistanis and [insert here]
>tfw no minis and army lists
>tfw no fielding of lost continental primarchs

>>11861228
i don't know anon. that's what i'm saying tho, i really want some more of this. if you like yuk hui tho and you want to read more, check out stiegler (his doctoral thesis supervisor) and gilbert simondon, who he really likes. heidegger also ofc.

>>11829965
>Benevolent technocratic world government-synthesis

bah gawd that's leibniz' music

the Ayo Hol Up Leibnizan Skunkworks

can't blitz the niz