Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps

The principle of inertia, despite the fact that it cannot be proven by any kind of experimental observation, is one of those principles that during the seventeenth century formed the foundations of a new physics. Both Descartes and Spinoza have tried however to demonstrate this principle and integra...

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Main Author: Épaminondas Vamboulis
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Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2005-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/304
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description The principle of inertia, despite the fact that it cannot be proven by any kind of experimental observation, is one of those principles that during the seventeenth century formed the foundations of a new physics. Both Descartes and Spinoza have tried however to demonstrate this principle and integrate it in their philosophical systems. Spinoza even proposes in his work Descartes’ Principles of Philosophy, while presenting Descartes’ view on that matter, a critical appraisal of some of the metaphysical presuppositions of the cartesian demonstration. An analysis of Spinoza’s arguments leads us to a study of the relation of the principle of inertia and the conatus theory of the Ethics, and subsequently to an interrogation concerning the status of Spinoza’s physics and the place that this science occupies in Spinoza’s philosophy.
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Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
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conatus
philosophie mécaniste
philosophie naturelle
spinozisme
title Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
title_full Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
title_fullStr Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
title_full_unstemmed Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
title_short Le principe d’inertie et le conatus du corps
title_sort le principe d inertie et le conatus du corps
topic inertie
conatus
philosophie mécaniste
philosophie naturelle
spinozisme
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