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Philosophy of Sciences

2024 year, number 5S

THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE: FROM NEWTON TO KANT

Anna Yurievna Storozhuk
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: Kant, Leibniz, Newton, Euler, understanding of space, a priori forms of feeling, "the seat of God", absolute space

Abstract

Carried out, which allows us to gradually demonstrate the historical change in approaches to understanding space and identify the main controversial points that were discussed. It is shown that the evolution of the concept of space is influenced by the development of mechanics, in particular such concepts as mass, inertia, force and motion. For Kant, the main motive was the desire to logically reconcile the ideas that arose in the natural sciences of that time and metaphysics.