Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature

As Introduction to the Study of This Science 1797

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521357333
• ISBN-10: 0521357330
• Artikelnr.: 21836404

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert Stern
Translators' note
Glossary
1. Of the combustion of bodies
2. Of light
3. Of the air and the kinds of air
4. Of electricity
5. Of the magnet
6. General considerations, as results of the foregoing
7. On attraction and repulsion in general, as principles of a system of nature
8. On the fictitious use of these two principles
9. Some remarks on the mechanical physics of M. Le Sage
10. First origin of the concept of matter, from the nature of perception and the human mind
11. Basic principles of dynamics
12. Of contingent determinations of matter - gradual transition into the domain of mere experience
13. Philosophy of chemistry in general
14. Application of these principles to particular topics of chemistry
15. Projected outline of the first principles of chemistry
Concluding note and transition to the following part
Appendix
Index of names
Index of subjects.