| Abstract: | Abstract It is well known that there is a one to one correspondence between idempotent monads in a category and reflective subcategories. In this paper it is examined what replaces the reflective subcategory if the idempotent monad is replaced (a) by a monad and (b) by a symmetric unad. It is shown that in case (a) one obtains the weakly reflective subcategory of objects injective relative to the functor part of the monad. In case (b) one obtains a proto-reflection and it is shown that (for complete categories) the associated orthogonal subcategory is reflective if and only if there exists a free monad associated to the unad. |
