t h r e e t h r e e On the Way toward the Precritical Project
t h r e e t h r e e On the Way toward the Precritical Project
This chapter explores the role that True Estimation of Living Forces (1747) played in Kant’s intellectual development. Section 1 describes Kant’s way of dealing with controversies and discusses his appropriation of Bilfinger’s heuristic strategy. Section 2 describes how quantities differ from physical objects for Kant, traces the Pietist roots of this view, and examines how this view of mathematics hamstrung Crusius and initially also Kant. Section 3 discusses the differences between Kantian dynamics and Newtonian mechanics, and details the reasons for Kant’s distance from Newton.
Keywords: True Estimation of Living Forces, Bilfinger, Rüdiger, Crusius, Newton, St. Petersburg, Pietism, harmony of oppposites, methodology, mathematics
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