Leibniz's Monadological Positive Aesthetics

Abstract

One of the most intriguing -and arguably counter-intuitive -doctrines defended by environmental philosophers is that of positive aesthetics, the thesis that all of nature is beautiful. The doctrine has attained philosophical respectability only comparatively recently, thanks in no small part to the work of Allen Carlson, one of its foremost defenders. In this paper we argue that the doctrine can be found