Newton's Principia on God-mediated action

Sfetcu, Nicolae Newton's Principia on God-mediated action., 2019 [Preprint]

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As John Henry states, Newton simply wants to reaffirm the truth of God's omnipresence without directly involving him in the physics of the world system. Newton simply wants to distance himself from a Cartesian concept of God and convince the atheists that God is a real presence extended in the world. God must exist in space for the space to exist, but God does not only act through contact. Henry believes that Andrew Janiak and Hylarie Kochiras give us a wrong picture of a Newton who believes in opportunism. Newton, Henry asserts, has always assumed that God acted through secondary causes:

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Isaac Newton, Principia, God, secondary causes, gravity
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DI. Science libraries.
Depositing user: Nicolae Sfetcu
Date deposited: 22 Aug 2023 12:00
Last modified: 22 Aug 2023 12:00
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44619

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Henry, John. 2011. “Gravity and De Gravitatione: The Development of Newton’s Ideas on Action at a Distance.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (1): 11–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.11.025.

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