Nota de FísicaPublicado
Sull'Influenza di Cartesio, Leibnitz e Newton Nel Primo Approccio di Kant al Problema dello Spazio e della sua Dimensionalità
F. Caruso; R. Moreira Xavier de Araújo
1996
Datos de la publicación
- Autores
- F. Caruso; R. Moreira Xavier de Araújo
- Tipo
- Nota de Física
- Estado
- Publicado
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Descripción
- In this essay it is emphasized that a careful reading of Kant's first writing work, ''Gedcanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte'', leads us to conclude that differently from what is normally accepted - Kant's reasoning does not lead to a deeper comprehension of the nature of space dimensionality, but limits itself to justify the tridimensionality of extension. Some epistemological aspects of this problem are also discussed. In particular, it is shown that Kant's argument could not be constructed in a purely Newtonian framework at that time (1747). Indeed, he built his proof on a world conception extracted from Descartes' and Leibniz's legacy on which, in a hybrid way, Newton's law of gravitation is included. It is argued that this choice was strongly influenced by young Kant's theological ideas which depart from those of Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton. It was this hybrid character of his approach that allowed Kant to raise the question of dimensionality of space as a physical problem, but, at the same time, due to its intrinsic limitations, led him to prove only the tridimensionality of extension.
- Año
- 1996
- Número
- CBPF-NF-047/96
- Vínculo con tesis
- No
- Vínculo con beca
- No