1. Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)
One of the greatest intellects of all time – Known for his idea that universe and all things in it look like Windowless Monads

2. Principle of Sufficient Reason
Leibniz thought that the principle of sufficient reason was a way to show that things in the world exist from contingency.
This idea of connection is described by St. Augustine who says that a past, present, and future time are logically interconnected.

3. What are self-evident principles?
Self-evident principles are part of the Ontological Arguments for God's Existence.
What are self-evident principles?

4. Order from Reason
Leibniz believed that there was order in the universe because of reason.
Consider how there is order from natural selection and how it relates to reason.
Ancestors: Cro Magnons and Neanderthals that evolved into us.
Living in forests, hunting and foraging for food, using tools such as sticks to pick food from the ground and eat.
Evolution by dynamic processes of development, reproduction, and gene changing causes reason.