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- Title
Between Du Châtelet's Leibniz Exegesis and Kant's Early Philosophy: A Study of Their Responses to the vis viva Controversy.
- Authors
Lu-Adler, Huaping
- Abstract
This paper examines Du Châtelet's and Kant's responses to the famous vis viva controversy -- Du Châtelet in her Institutions Physiques (1742) and Kant in his debut, the Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (1746-49). The Institutions was not only a highly influential contribution to the vis viva controversy, but also a pioneering attempt to integrate Leibnizian metaphysics and Newtonian physics. The young Kant's evident knowledge of this work has led some to speculate about his indebtedness to her philosophy. My study corrects such speculations as well as misunderstandings of the Living Forces. This corrective result has implications for how to investigate Kant's relation to the ever-evolving landscape of Leibniz exegeses.
- Subjects
DU Chatelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749; LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; METAPHYSICS; PHYSICS
- Publication
Logical Analysis & History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse, 2018, Vol 21, p177
- ISSN
1617-3473
- Publication type
Article