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Hegel and Newtonianism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Hegel and Newtonianism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 136
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It could certainly be argued that the way in which Hegel criticizes
Newton in the Dissertation, the Philosophy of Nature and the
lectures on the History of Philosophy, has done more than anything
else to prejudice his own reputation. At first sight, what we seem
to have here is little more than the contrast between the tested
accomplishments of the founding father of modern science, and the
random remarks of a confused and somewhat disgruntled philosopher;
and if we are persuaded to concede that it may perhaps be something
more than this - between the work of a clearsighted mathematician
and experimentalist, and the blind assertions of some sort of
Kantian logician, blundering about among the facts of the real
world. By and large, it was this clear-cut simplistic view of the
matter which prevailed among Hegel's contemporaries, and which
persisted until fairly recently. The modification and eventual
transformation of it have come about gradually, over the past
twenty or twenty-five years. The first full-scale commentary on the
Philosophy of Nature was published in 1970, and gave rise to the
realization that to some extent at least, the Hegelian criticism
was directed against Newtonianism rather than the work of Newton
himself, and that it tended to draw its inspiration from
developments within the natural sciences, rather than from the
exigencies imposed upon Hegel's thinking by a priori categorial
relationships.
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