The Gedanken represent the first synthetic step of Kantian speculation, addressing the famous dispute on ‘the living forces’ occasioned by Leibniz in 1686 with respect to Descartes’ philosophy on the theme of momentum conservation (K : ∆p = m.v or F = m.v2 ?). Already from this first work there emerges clearly the common thread that runs through all of Kant’s research, aimed at the pursuit of a systematic description of the Universe, determined a priori, according to the programmatic direction of ‘classical’ Science, that is to say, in absolute conformity with the law of causality and the principle of sufficient reason, according to which: posita ratione, ponitur rationatum.
The vis viva (living force) controversy in the first kantian work [1746 (1749)] and his relevance for the Contemporary Physics
STEFANO VENERONI
2020
Abstract
The Gedanken represent the first synthetic step of Kantian speculation, addressing the famous dispute on ‘the living forces’ occasioned by Leibniz in 1686 with respect to Descartes’ philosophy on the theme of momentum conservation (K : ∆p = m.v or F = m.v2 ?). Already from this first work there emerges clearly the common thread that runs through all of Kant’s research, aimed at the pursuit of a systematic description of the Universe, determined a priori, according to the programmatic direction of ‘classical’ Science, that is to say, in absolute conformity with the law of causality and the principle of sufficient reason, according to which: posita ratione, ponitur rationatum.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
