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Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (German: Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte) is Immanuel Kant's first published work, published in 1749. It is the first of Kant's works on natural philosophy. The True Estimation is divided into a preface and three chapters.
Thoughts on the true estimation of living forces and assessment of the demonstrations that Leibniz and other scholars of mechanics have made use of in this controversial subject, together with some prefatory considerations pertaining to the force of bodies in general. (1746–1749)
Thoughts on the true estimation of living forces not only as a metaphysical principle of unity (in contrast to Descartes’s infinitely divisible extension), but also as the seat of such a living force,
Thoughts on the true estimation of living forces, has had in the classical literature on Kant’s work, and we will contribute to its due revaluation. Keywords: Kant, Space, Precritical period, Metaphysical of natural laws.
27 de abr. de 2024 · In this volume Eric Watkins brings together new English translations of Kant's first publication, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (1746–9), the entirety of Physical Geography (1802), a series of shorter essays, along with many of Kant's most important publications in natural science.
21 de oct. de 2003 · Kant’s first publication, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (1746), explicitly attempts to solve the vis viva controversy, which had been hotly contested ever since Leibniz’s 1686 attack on Descartes’ laws of motion.
“Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces” is Immanuel Kant's first published work [3]. Written in 1744–46 and published in 1749, it reflected Kant's position as a metaphysical dualist at the time.
