Newtonian Idealist Thought 20, Newtonian Idealist Thought

Newton was a great scientist who moved history forward in many fields.

He is considered an idealist, mainly because he is in science ** and cannot solve the problem of the first impulse. Suggesting God is the first driving force.

In traditional physics, this is indeed a problem, as is the question of whether the chicken comes first, or the egg comes first.

But when you turn the problem around, the egg problem can be solved, and the problem of the first driving force can also be explained.

Motion is a property of matter, there is no matter without motion, and motion is not just mechanical motion, but has many forms. You say that this view is idealistic or materialistic.

Materialism and idealism are also contradictions, inseparable and interdependent.

Newton's study of science rose to the height of philosophy, encountered problems that he could not understand, and then believed that there was a God who dominated the development of the world, he believed that everything, including his discovery of gravity, was prescribed by God, and then tried to prove that God existed.

Hehe, what's the use?

Isn't it said that God has gasped for the earth?

What does it have to do with idealism and materialism!

I don't know the specifics, but it is said that Newton seemed to have begun to believe in God and no longer believed in science in his later years, but I have forgotten the specifics.

The great physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor of gravity and calculus, the famous Newton was an idealist, which may sound like a fantasy, but Newton's idealism is a fact, and it is not a contradiction. I think that the reason why Newton studied theology in his later years was due to Newton's advanced brain and backward scientific and technological level at that time. In fact, I think Newton was a complete materialist, although he studied theology in his later years, but mainly because Newton believed that some phenomena could not be explained with existing theories, and even the theories he proposed could not perfectly explain the world and the universe, and the technology at that time was too low, and people were limited by history, and they were a little lazy in their thinking, so some scientists would rather believe in God than dig into the essence of the world.

But Newton was no scientist of that kind!

No matter how much a great man is ahead of his time, he cannot be ahead of his time in all aspects, and then he will become a superman. Newton, in the process of being born and growing up, the education they received, the people they came into contact with, must have been full of religious shadows. But in the shadow of these, when faced with cumbersome basic data, they eventually come up with mathematical or more explicit theories of cause and effect, rather than applying the religious one.

As a result, Newton and Darwin were able to make something clean on their own, although they grew up in the mud, which was definitely a victory for materialism and science. As for their return to religion, perhaps they have no formal explanation of their own, so we should assume that they have adopted a certain way of life. In fact, when they do research, their attitudes towards religion are not necessarily different.

Or simply put, old eyes are dizzy.