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Kepler métaphysicien

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Cet article entreprend de déterminer la situation métaphysique de la science keplérienne, et distingue trois phases de son évolution: a) une phase initiale, programmatique, où l’astronomie copernicienne veut faire office de théologie naturelle, et où, réciproquement, la théologie doit servir de sanction aux nouvelles hypothèses; b) une phase intermédiaire, où l’astronomie copernicienne ne cherche plus à se fonder dans un arrière-monde métaphysique, mais dans les causes naturelles des mouvements célestes; c) une phase terminale, postérieure à la découverte de la loi des temps périodiques, où Kepler renonce au projet initial de faire jouer à l’astronomie ou «physique céleste» une fonction ancillaire. Cette physique céleste n’est pas une théologie naturelle, mais une théologie naturalisée. *** This article tries to determine the metaphysical situation of Keplerian science, and distinguishes three phases of its evolution: a. an initial, programmatic phase, where Copernican astronomy wants to serve as a natural theology, and where, reciprocally, theology must serve as a sanction to the new hypotheses; b. an intermediate phase, where Copernican astronomy no longer seeks to be founded in a metaphysical back-world, but in the natural causes of celestial movements; c. a terminal phase, after the discovery of the law of periodic time, where Kepler renounces the initial project of making astronomy or “celestial physics” play an ancillary function. This celestial physics is not a natural theology, but a naturalized theology.
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Title: Kepler métaphysicien
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Cet article entreprend de déterminer la situation métaphysique de la science keplérienne, et distingue trois phases de son évolution: a) une phase initiale, programmatique, où l’astronomie copernicienne veut faire office de théologie naturelle, et où, réciproquement, la théologie doit servir de sanction aux nouvelles hypothèses; b) une phase intermédiaire, où l’astronomie copernicienne ne cherche plus à se fonder dans un arrière-monde métaphysique, mais dans les causes naturelles des mouvements célestes; c) une phase terminale, postérieure à la découverte de la loi des temps périodiques, où Kepler renonce au projet initial de faire jouer à l’astronomie ou «physique céleste» une fonction ancillaire.
Cette physique céleste n’est pas une théologie naturelle, mais une théologie naturalisée.
*** This article tries to determine the metaphysical situation of Keplerian science, and distinguishes three phases of its evolution: a.
an initial, programmatic phase, where Copernican astronomy wants to serve as a natural theology, and where, reciprocally, theology must serve as a sanction to the new hypotheses; b.
an intermediate phase, where Copernican astronomy no longer seeks to be founded in a metaphysical back-world, but in the natural causes of celestial movements; c.
a terminal phase, after the discovery of the law of periodic time, where Kepler renounces the initial project of making astronomy or “celestial physics” play an ancillary function.
This celestial physics is not a natural theology, but a naturalized theology.

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