Kant's Complete Works. Volume 2: Pre-Critical Works II (1757-1777)

Author: Li Qiuling
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Kant was born in Germany in 1724. At a young age, he became almost familiar with the development of various disciplines in natural sciences and became a knowledgeable scientist. As a natural scientist, Kant held a simple materialist viewpoint, recognizing the existence of "things-in-themselves" independent of human consciousness and acknowledging the objective laws of material development. Therefore, at the age of 31, he anonymously published General Introduction to the History of the Universe, boldly denying the divine creation theory of the universe's origin and proposing the "nebular hypothesis" of cosmic origin. For the first time, he answered this major and fundamental scientific question of cosmic formation from a scientific perspective, making significant contributions to the development of modern science and technology. Kant's works are known for their obscure language, which not only stems from the depth of his philosophical thoughts but also from the gap between the German language of his time and modern German. Moreover, Kant lived in K?nigsberg in East Prussia, a relatively culturally underdeveloped area. His German, whether in grammar or syntax, clearly bore the traces of Prussian dialect. This book covers topics such as the force of objects, research on Leibniz's doctrine of vis viva, what makes a new measurement of vis viva become the true measure of nature, the study of the Earth's rotation on its axis, and whether the Earth has aged.