Osservazioni fisico-teoriche attorno al primo scritto di Kant sulle forze vive del 1746 (1749)

The Gedanken represent the first synthetic momentum of the kantian speculation, where the famous querelle of ‘living forces’, occasioned by Leibniz in 1686 against the cartesian philosophy on the law of conservation of quantity of motion (K : ∆p = m.v or F = m.v2 ?), is addressed. It is already clear from this first work that the common thread that runs through all the research of Kant is the pursue of a systematic description of the Universe, previously determined (a priori), according to the ‘classic’ Science programmatic line, in strict compliance with the law of causality and the principle of sufficient reason, according to which: posita ratione, ponitur rationatum.