"The Evolution of the “Principle of Least Effort” in Richard Avenarius’Thought from Prolegomena to Kritik der Reinen Erfahrung". Starting from some manuscripts held in Avenarius’ Nachlass, this essay aims at showing how the drafts written between 1880 and 1883 testify Avenarius’ rethinking of the principle of least effort. In these drafts, as well as in the Kritik, Avenarius separates what seem to be the two “souls” of that principle (the principle of persistence and the principle of evolution), obtaining, this way, the principle of the minimum amount of variation and the principle of the progressive elimination. At the same time, this change of mind leads Avenarius to a more dynamic conception of the human conservation, less focused on self-preservation and more oriented towards the adaptation to an environment as wide as possible.

L'evoluzione del "principio del minor dispendio di forza" nel pensiero di Richard Avenarius dai "Prolegomena" alla "Kritik der reinen Erfahrung" / RUSSO KRAUSS, Chiara. - In: ARCHIVIO DI STORIA DELLA CULTURA. - ISSN 1124-0059. - STAMPA. - XXIII:(2010), pp. 331-355.

L'evoluzione del "principio del minor dispendio di forza" nel pensiero di Richard Avenarius dai "Prolegomena" alla "Kritik der reinen Erfahrung"

RUSSO KRAUSS, CHIARA
2010

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"The Evolution of the “Principle of Least Effort” in Richard Avenarius’Thought from Prolegomena to Kritik der Reinen Erfahrung". Starting from some manuscripts held in Avenarius’ Nachlass, this essay aims at showing how the drafts written between 1880 and 1883 testify Avenarius’ rethinking of the principle of least effort. In these drafts, as well as in the Kritik, Avenarius separates what seem to be the two “souls” of that principle (the principle of persistence and the principle of evolution), obtaining, this way, the principle of the minimum amount of variation and the principle of the progressive elimination. At the same time, this change of mind leads Avenarius to a more dynamic conception of the human conservation, less focused on self-preservation and more oriented towards the adaptation to an environment as wide as possible.
2010
L'evoluzione del "principio del minor dispendio di forza" nel pensiero di Richard Avenarius dai "Prolegomena" alla "Kritik der reinen Erfahrung" / RUSSO KRAUSS, Chiara. - In: ARCHIVIO DI STORIA DELLA CULTURA. - ISSN 1124-0059. - STAMPA. - XXIII:(2010), pp. 331-355.
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