La energía entre la física y la metafísica

<p>The general concept of energy is somewhat unclear as long as it is confined to physics, since every chapter of it defines its own particular concept of energy. The general concept can be elucidated in terms of the hypergeneral (philosophical) concepts of concrete thing and changeability. In...

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Main Author: Mario Bunge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación de Profesores de Física de Argentina 2016-12-01
Series:Revista de Enseñanza de la Física
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaEF/article/view/16119
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Summary:<p>The general concept of energy is somewhat unclear as long as it is confined to physics, since every chapter of it defines its own particular concept of energy. The general concept can be elucidated in terms of the hypergeneral (philosophical) concepts of concrete thing and changeability. In this way one<br />succeeds in crafting a minitheory that identifies energy with mutability, and that regards it, as well as its conservation, as the universal property of concrete things. The moral is that physicists and philosophers can learn from one another.</p>
ISSN:0326-7091
2250-6101