Newton's Principia on God-mediated action

Nicolae Sfetcu ()
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Nicolae Sfetcu: Romanian Academy - Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CRIFST), History of Science Division (DIS)

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Abstract: 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:

Keywords: Isaac Newton; Principia; God; secondary causes; gravity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2019-02
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